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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch this extended seventh episode. Protests and warfare rage on in Ukraine, NEMA hosts a guest speaker series, students prepare for finals week, MMA club promotes campus safety, Marauders discuss their study abroad experience, and the professors discuss how […]
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the sixth episode. Millersville’s chapter of the National Electronic Media Association (NEMA) provided students with opportunities to connect with professionals in the field this semester through a guest speaker series. Michael Zabkowski interviews members of NEMA, including president Nicole […]
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the fifth episode. As finals week approaches at Millersville University, Dale Stoltzfus interviews students on their tips and tricks to studying for exams and de-stressing during the last leg of the semester.
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the extended fourth episode. This extended edition of The Snapshot features exciting events that took place at Millersville University this semester, including the issue with parking, a Millersville alum working as a production assistant for a horror film […]
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the fourth episode. The Office of International Programs and Services celebrated International Education Week, which commemorates and supports international students and study abroad programs on college campuses across the county. Maggie May Krall interviews students and staff about […]
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the third episode. College campuses often find themselves the home of intriguing sculptures and art pieces from students and members of the community, with Millersville of course being no exception. Andrew Ciardullo spotlights some of these unique […]
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the second episode. Angel Pena-Pabon interviews members of Millersville University’s Board Game Club as they participate in Lego Day, an event where members of the community can build and create art through LEGOs.
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the first episode Nick Lewars interviews a couple of students and got their thoughts on President Joe Biden’s new student debt relief announcement.
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the newest episode The library has introduced a change to the group study rooms. Most of the group study rooms on the fifth floor have been replaced with offices for University College. Not only has the library tried […]
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the first episode Michael Zabkowski discusses Millersville Athletics’ new plans for renovations.
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Millersville University’s Broadcast News Reporting Class created visual stories based on events on campus! Click HERE to watch the first episode Izzy Goetz, discusses WIXQ’s need for a faculty advisor. The radio station has a temporary one, but need someone for the long haul.
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Click HERE to watch Snapper News Editor David Milam interview Dr. Victoria Khiterer, who gives her incite on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Click HERE to watch Snapper EIC Shaun Lucas interview Millersville Chief of Police Peter Anders, discussing the rules behind masks on campus.
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Jared Kish
Sports Editor
Like any youngster playing baseball, Tyler Yankosky’s goal was always to be drafted. Last June, that dream became a reality for Yankosky when the Washington Nationals drafted the former MU pitcher. He was pretty stocked to be playing professional baseball. However, to understand his journey we need to go way back to when he first started at Millersville.
Yankosky played three years at Millersville and what sold him to come here was head coach Jon Shehan.
“Coach Shehan really sold the program he runs there, plus the atmosphere there sold it. It’s a winning program there and coach Shehan does a good job developing players,” Yankosky says.
Shehan’s success as a coach here at Millersville rubs off on his players and that can certainly be seen with Yankosky. With a winning culture at Millersville it was a no brainer for him to come here.
After arriving Yankosky continued to improve. His ERA got better throughout his three years and he made a jump from a starter to the bullpen. But he claims that change has nothing to do with why he improved.
“A little but not, I put in a lot of hard work in that offseason that year so if I was a starter or in the bullpen, I was going to have a good year either way,” Yankosky says.
Shehan’s decision to move him to the bullpen was based on helping out Yankosky personally.
Yankosky made the move to the bullpen and it helped him and the team out. Photo courtesy of MU Athletics. “Shehan just thought that it would help me personally and the team so we couldn’t go wrong by trying it at least.” Yankosky says.
Yankosky attributes his success to all the hard work he put in over the offseason. Training in the fall is, surprisingly, a lot more intense than the spring. Since the team is not playing games in the fall, Shehan works hard to make sure his guys are training at a top level.
“Spring is a little more laid back than the fall so in the fall we have 5:30 or 6 a.m. o’clock lifts and then we’d go home and get ready for class. Come back out later about two or three o’clock in the afternoon and go practice for a couple of hours and we would intersquad on the weekends,” Yankosky says.
The rigorous program at MU did a lot to prepare Yankosky for training in professional baseball.
“Pretty similar, coach Shehan runs his team like a professional ball club. I didn’t realize it till I got drafted but once I did and realized the professional style of baseball, coach Shehan runs his program similar,” Yankosky says.
All the training paid off for Yankosky and when the Washington Nationals came to see him pitch.
“They came to see me throw twice. But I didn’t have any contact with them until about ten minutes before they picked me,” Yankosky says.
Yankosky was drafted by the Washington Nationals in 2019 and his dream finally became a reality. Photo courtesy of Tyler Yankosky. He got the call 10 minutes before the Nationals picked him and he was soon off to play professional baseball. Yankosky went down to Florida to the Nats Spring Training complex to be evaluated and figure out what he needed to work on to play baseball at the professional level.
“I went down to where they send all the new drafted guys to get a physical and everything. They’ll make you stay down there for two to three weeks to get used to everything and they’ll take some notes on you to figure out what you need to work on,” Yankosky says.
Before heading up to the big leagues, Yankosky was sent to short season Single-A. He enjoyed playing there this past season.
“It was cool, it was something you always dream about playing in front of a couple thousand fans on some nights, so it was really neat,” Yankosky says.
Many adjustments had to come with the transition from college ball to Single-A. This is pro ball. The hitters are stronger, and the umpires strike zone is different.
“Umpires strike zones get a lot tighter, overall the players are a lot better. You don’t get a lot of guys swinging at a lot of bad pitches anymore so you really have to concentrate on making quality pitches on every single pitch,” Yankosky says.
Yankosky knew he had to execute pitches. No more leaving a hanging curveball and getting away with it. It was a different kind of pitching now for him.
“At Millersville you’d get away sometimes with if your 0-2 all you want to do is bounce the breaking ball in the dirt, when I got off the short season, I realized it was not that easy anymore. If it came out that low guys would just start taking it for a ball. You want to make sure it hits the dirt after the plate,” Yankosky says.
Though Yankosky was now in professional baseball and a dream come true for him, he recalls that being drafted wasn’t even really a thought through high school. It wasn’t until he got to Millersville that this became a possibility.
“I always wanted to be drafted out of high school, but it really wasn’t a possibility. Even my freshmen year at Millersville it didn’t really ring a bell, but during my sophomore year I gained a little bit of velocity and it got better and after that year coach Shehan was like you have a shot to be drafted if you work hard. And that’s what really motived me,” Yankosky says.
Gaining some velocity in his sophomore year at MU, Yankosky then was able to really work toward getting noticed and it did pay off in the long run.
Being drafted is a dream every young baseball player has from T-Ball through college. For Tyler Yankosky the dream became a reality and he couldn’t be more excited to live out his dream as a professional baseball player.
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Jared Kish
Sports Editor
For Eli Nabholz, his journey to the MU baseball program was a bit different from those of many of his teammates. Nabholz began his collegiate career at Penn State before coming to play under head coach Jon Shehan here at Millersville.
His one goal, which he has now since accomplished, was to get drafted by a Major League Baseball team. He felt that coming to Millersville was his best opportunity to eventually get there.
“For me, one of my biggest goals was to be drafted and play professionally and after my freshmen year I felt that going somewhere else was the best chance to do that. Millersville turned out to be the best opportunity for me,” Nabholz says.
What sold Nabholz on coming to MU was coach Shehan. Millersville had just played in a national championship game and three pitchers had just left the team. It seemed inevitable that Nabholz would join the Millersville baseball program and gel right away.
“Coach Shehan was a huge part of it. He’s such a great guy first and foremost. A really great baseball guy and a great baseball mind. So I naturally was drawn to him,” Nabholz says.
Nabholz says that at Penn State the coaches had more of a “do what I say” attitude, expecting players to follow as they lead the charge. Coach Shehan and his crew, by contrast, made it all about the players and what they needed to do to develop.
“The biggest part for me was at Penn State, they were more do what the coaches say and they’re the head and you need to follow them. With coach Shehan he really made it about us. What we needed to do to develop, what we thought we needed to do to win, he acted a lot more like a mentor rather than a coach,” Nabholz says.
Nabholz did have to make some adjustments after coming over from Penn State. New program, new regimen and new coaches meant he had to significantly switch up his routine. He was now pitching to win, it wasn’t about him just going out there and performing the art of pitching, the element of wining was thrown into the mix in a way that it wasn’t at Penn State.
“The biggest thing was, it wasn’t me going out to pitch, it was going with a team and playing to win. Two, he gives us so much information, we use so much technology… so it was a lot easier to kind of see where we needed to develop and how to attack the batter,” Nabholz says. “We had so much technology at our disposal that it made it easy to go out and pitch.”
Nabholz came in from PSU and was dominant as soon as he took the mound. He hovered between a two and three ERA for three years and he attributes that to his coaches and his teammates.
Nabholz came in to the Millersville baseball program after leaving Penn State and made his presence known right away. Photo courtesy of MU Athletics. “We said all the time, and it’s a big part of when you sign up to come to Millersville, the first thing your told is it’s a brotherhood, you don’t have to earn your way in. You come in and you get the advantage of being a Millersville Marauder. Once you’re on that team everyone welcomes you and trusts you,” Nabholz says.
Despite his dominance upon arriving at MU, Nabholz struggled with confidence. He says that with Shehan’s guidance, the program as a whole felt like a brotherhood, he soon found the confidence he was missing.
“I was a guy who lacked a lot of confidence coming in after my freshmen year at Penn State and I just came in playing with these guys I gained so much more confidence in myself. I knew I had guys behind me that were going to help me,” Nabholz says.
Although Nabholz spent his years at Millersville having big league scouts looking at him, his dream of being drafted into the MLB actually started in high school. That dream finally became a reality when he was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2019.
“It definitely started in high school. There was a kid drafted on my high school team who was one of my best friends, so we always had a lot of scouts who were at our high school games. When I got to college there were always guys there from my freshmen year all the way through my senior year. The guys in the area always love to get a big sample size on players,” Nabholz says.
While being drafted is very exciting, it is hardly the end of the learning process. For Nabholz, as for any player, bigger adjustments needed to be made both on and off the field. He is now playing pro ball and the life of a professional ball player can be very challenging. However, he claims he has adjusted very well to that kind of lifestyle.
“A lot of people have asked me this question and I can honestly say I have adjusted really well because of how coach Shehan handled things at Millersville,” Nabholz says. “At Millersville it’s all about culture and that sort of thing. But when it comes to how he develops players it’s very visual. So when I got here, I already knew how to use a lot of the technology. Even the mental side of the game we did so much mental training that when I got here, I was a lot further ahead than a lot of other kids who were drafted.”
Nabholz’s base that was built at Millersville prepared him well for professional baseball and coach Shehan designing the program the way he does made the transition for Nabholz and the other drafted players from MU much easier.
“Absolutely, it certainly helps that we have a bunch of guys over the past few years who are playing pro ball and we’ve always been in contact and they’ve come back for practices. We get to talk to them and see how it is, so we we’re definitely prepared for it,” Nabholz says.
While he managed to adjust off the field, on the field was a different story for Nabholz. He says that he was on the same level as the guys he was playing against, so psychically there wasn’t that much of an adjustment. His problem was getting over the mentality that he could have success at this level.
“This might sound a little backwards but the biggest adjustment I had was realizing the kids I was playing against aren’t really that much better than the kids I’ve played against in college,” Nabholz says.
Nabholz’s journey was a long but a successful one, starting out at Penn State, coming to Millersville and then finally achieving the dream of being drafted into the big leagues. His hard work paid off in the long run and as he prepares for the upcoming season his future looks bright.
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Jared Kish
Sports Editor
Daniel Ross has travelled thousands of miles to get where he is today. Born in Japan, Ross moved to the US to play collegiate baseball at Fresno State College.
“The big reason was my high school coach Charles Star, he was from Fresno State College and he was the one who recommended me to go there.” Ross says.
From there, Ross continued his way east and made it to Millersville after his dad’s job sent him to Pennsylvania. He says he felt this was the perfect opportunity to play baseball around his family after being away from them for three years.
“I wanted to play baseball around my family, and I wanted to see them since I had been away from them for like three years being at Fresno. I started looking at colleges in Pennsylvania and we looked at a lot of Division II schools and once I started to talk to coach Shehan, I loved it here right away,” Ross says.
Ross was excited to be here in Pennsylvania around his family, but it was also important that coach Jon Shehan sold him on the program. The toughest adjustment, however, was that he was from Japan and there were some major language barriers.
“There was a lot of language barriers and cultural barriers that didn’t click in immediately. But the language barrier kept me away from knowing people more and it was harder to understand people more,” Ross says.
Ross was concerned that the fact that he was still learning English might be a challenge or make it harder to get along with his teammates. But his language barrier wasn’t just holding him back off the field, it created on the field challenges as well. There are things about baseball that are universal, but Ross says in Japan players think differently.
“It’s a little bit different like how people think, baseball is played a little differently. I don’t have any quick examples but everything didn’t make sense or click for me right away,” Ross says.
So, once Ross got adjusted and started playing at Millersville he took off. In 2018 he made 10 appearances on the mound posting an ERA of 3.72. He stuck out 17 batters in seven innings and his impact on the team was felt right away. 2019 is when Ross got a bigger role and started to have Major League teams take notice. He slid into the starting rotation as Millersville’s fourth starter and posted a 3-2 record with an ERA of 3.62.
Daniel Ross continuously improved during his time as a Marauder which led to big league teams taking notice to his talent. Photo courtesy of MU Athletics. Ross’s successful season paid off in the long run as he soon got the call that he would be drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates became interested in him from the first game they saw Ross pitch when he was throwing around 93-94 MPH.
“I averaged 93-94 one game and that was the first time I was really throwing hard. I haven’t really thrown that hard since, but that was the first time they noticed,” Ross says.
Impressively, he became even more dominant when runners were on base holding the batters to an average of .228 when the bases were occupied.
Going from college to pro isn’t easy and Ross says the adjustments between programs took time getting used to.
“The biggest adjustment was probably following the programs. In college we had a lot of programs like driveline and stuff like that. Now that I am in pro ball, arm care routines are a lot different and I feel professional ball clubs don’t want to touch young kids arms and they want to keep them natural as much as possible,” Ross says.
Ross says that he thinks professional teams don’t want to tweak young kids arms as much. His adjustments came more in the form of pre workouts and the different regiments Ross was put on and what the Pirates saw fit.
Ross seems like he’s well-adjusted and ready for whatever comes his way. After playing a season in the minors it has sunk in that he has been drafted and that this is his life now. Ross has certainly travelled a long way from Japan to get to where is today. But in the end, it just goes to prove that baseball can take you anywhere. Nothing seems to phase Ross. He is devoted to one day putting on a Pirates uniform.
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Jared Kish
Sports Editor
As we established in episode one of this series, Millersville’s baseball team has been successful for the last ten years and that is due in part with the guy leading the charge. Head coach Jon Shehan has been the man at the helm, and he has built the Millersville baseball program into one of the most dominant in Division II.
Coach Shehan is no stranger to the Millersville baseball program. He is an alum of the program himself, who played for the Marauders in the early 2000’s, When Shehan arrived as coach he already knew the ins and outs of the program. By understanding how Millersville operates, Shehan was able to step in and take a collegiate ball club to the next level and ultimately had some of his players drafted to Major League organizations.
In fact, within the past year, Shehan has had three players drafted into the MLB. Tyler Yankosy, Eli Nabaholz, and Daniel Ross were all players drafted in 2019 under the direction of Shehan.
“We set a goal to have three draft pics, and Yank we had a good idea, but Eli and Ross were a surprised,” Shehan says.
Even more impressive is that this crop of young men wasn’t the first players Shehan has had drafted. The most notable product to come out of Millersville is left hand specialist Tim Mayza who pitches for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Success doesn’t come from laziness and coach Shehan is fully aware of that. To have players drafted, Millersville goes through training year-round to keep their players in the best shape even through the offseason. Shehan and his staff work with individual players to come up with specialized workouts suitable for the players needs and development. Having had numerous pitchers drafted; the workouts have proven to be valuable for the MU pitching staff.
To be a highly competitive coach at any level of baseball its important you build a supporting staff around you, which is exactly what Shehan has done at Millersville.
“First and foremost, a lot of the success has been out of my hands. Remaining humble in that and knowing we’ve had a fantastic administration who has been overly supportive of the program.” Shehan says.
To have any baseball program gel together, it takes a good staff and corporation from the coaches and players.
After the success of the last few years, coach Shehan is ready to kick off a 2020 campaign that will hopefully see the Marauders fight for a National Championship. Millersville went into the offseason after coming up short of their goal in 2019 and they are prepared to come out firing on all cylinders.
This year’s team are ready to put last season behind them and get to work on 2020.
“For the current players there is always a bad taste in your mouth from looking at it outside in at the end of the year. There’s only one team in Division II that ends the year on a win, but we have a consistent goal to win a championship.” Shehan says.
Shehan and the Marauders are revved up and ready for success this year. If history is a good predictor, then this team will not disappoint in the 2020 baseball season.
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Jared Kish
Sports Editor
It’s no secret that Millersville’s baseball program has been a powerhouse in the PSAC for many years now. Boasting a winning record dating back to 2011, head coach Jon Shehan has built a solid baseball program at MU.
In 2016, Millersville finished with a 53-7 record going an unbelievable 20-0 at home. Shehan that year led the Marauders to the NCAA Division II Championship game and finishing with a record of 25-3 in the PSAC. Though Millersville lost in the national championship, they didn’t lose a step heading into subsequent seasons.
Baseball isn’t a one-man sport, and Shehan wouldn’t be able to do the job on his own. Though he is a great coach, there’s been a wave of extradentary talent to fly through Millersville leading to their success.
The most notable would be Tim Mayza who was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in 2013. During his time at Millersville, Mayza recorded a 21-9 record with a 2.98 ERA with 185 strikeouts. He went on to be a left-handed specialist out of the bullpen and has been a solid reliever for the Jays pen. Sadly, in 2019 his season was cut short due to Tommy John surgery.
Mayza was a crucial part to Millersville’s success from 2011-13. More recently, three pitchers have continued building the program’s legacy of greatness.
Tim Mayza was dominate in his time at Millersville boasting an ERA just under three during is time as a Marauder. Photo courtesy of MU Athletics. Eli Nabaholz, Tyler Yankosky, and Daniel Ross were all integral parts to the Millersville pitching staff that just dominated opponents from 2016-19. Due to their great play within the Millersville program and under the supervision of Shehan, these three were drafted to major league teams in 2019 which was a dream come true for these young men.
Millersville has proven year after year that they can compete with the best teams that Division II baseball has to offer. Their record, success of their players, and the culture built under Shehan has proven to lead Millersville to be the best team they can be.
This series of stories will feature conversations with Nabaholz, Yankosky, Ross, and Coach Shehan to be understand how the Millersville Marauders operate as a baseball team, and the culture of success Shehan has created at the Ville.
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In this episode, Dr. Spicer talks with Features Editor Carly O’Neill and Associate Features Editor Simren Shah about international students attending Millersville and helping homeless women in Lancaster city.
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In this episode, Dr. Spicer talks with Editor in Chief Jared Hameloth about the amazing photo sent to us over the summer. The original photo and the final front cover of the Nov. 14 edition of the Snapper can be seen below:
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In this episode of Tell Me More, Dr. Spicer talks to one of our Associate Arts & Culture Editors, Rachel Laughlin, about her article featuring the GSA taking self defense courses with the Martial Arts club.
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