I decided to have some fun with this picture and insert my six year old nephew on the cover of People Magazine as the first ever child to reach the MLB.  Two things created this, the first is that I was throwing wiffle balls this afternoon to him and watching him demolish the balls.  The second was the outrageous magazine storeies you see while you are in line at the supermarket! I feel so blessed to have him in my life.

    We constantly warn our student athletes to watch what they post on the internet, specifically with the kind of language they use and photos that they post.  Their social media sites are a representation of them as a person, and they in turn are a representation of our program.  Meaning that our program could gain a negative image in someone's head solely because one "mistake" or "joke" that an individual posts.
    At the same time social media networks allow for college athletes to interact with athletes from a different university as well as give them the opportunity to feel like they are on the same social level as professional athletes.  For example, with my new twitter account I will have the chance to retweet a post of my

Hello All,

    My name is Matt Souza.  I am currently working on my Master's Degree in Physical Education at Fresno Pacific University where my anticipated completion is the 2014 Summer.  I also received my Bachelor's Degree in History from Fresno Pacific.  

    During my undergrad years at FPU, I was apart of the baseball program, in fact baseball has been a major portion of my life having played throughout college and now currently I am in my third season as an assistant coach at FPU.  I enjoy the constant interaction I get with my players and the ability of watching them achieve their dreams of playing college baseball while they earn a college degree that can never be taken away from them is something I will never take for granted.

    I grew up in Hanford, California where I remain extremly close with both of my parents of whom I am forever grateful for raising me in a Christ filled household.