Before Cassie Pantelas was swinging her club for the Jackson High School golf team and eventually Seton Hall University, she was swinging bats while playing America’s greatest pastime.
“I actually played baseball until I was 13,” Pantelas said.
Being the youngest of five, Panetelas naturally wanted to be like her older siblings, especially her brothers Ari and Alex, who were just starting to get into baseball.
“Ari and Alex are both a year older than me so they were starting t-ball and I was like, ‘Hey, I’m playing t-ball if they’re playing t-ball,’” Pantelas said. “I ended up being a little bit better at it than them.