May 1, 2014
By Matt Allibone, GoPSUsports.com Student Staff Writer
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Growing up in Wilkes-Barre, Zach Ell was raised to bleed Penn State blue and white.
As a child and during his years at Holy Redeemer High School, Ell would frequently make the two-hour trek to State College on the weekends with his friends to attend not only Penn State football games, but baseball games, as well.
Although he was a star baseball player in high school, playing at the next level for his favorite college team was always something of a pipedream that Ell never truly believed would happen. That was until he began getting recruited by former head coach Robbie Wine, at which point the decision of where to go to school became an easy one.
"It never really occurred to me but once they started recruiting me I envisioned this dream of how cool it would be to play for my favorite team and I knew from the start I wanted to go here," Ell said. "Not just for the baseball aspect but this was the school I wanted to go to academically. I love the atmosphere at Penn State and the community is amazing."
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