Former Peru baseball star, Ryan Maggy, announces transfer to Indiana University
Maggy made history this past season with West Virginia competing in the College Baseball World Series
Ryan Maggy, a former Peru High School baseball star, announced that he is transferring from West Virginia University to Indiana University.
From a young age, Maggy always had a vision.
“It was instilled in me since I was a child,” Maggy said. “That’s always been my dream, to play professional baseball.”
“We knew early on, probably by the time he was 7 or 8-years-old,” Ryan’s father, Joel Maggy said.
With that dream, Maggy knew what he had to do to get there.
“Every day we would just hear him slamming that ball in the basement,” Ryan’s mother, Shannon Maggy said.
“You have to be good enough to play Division one baseball, to be able to play professionally,” Ryan said.
Through middle school and high school, Maggy was a standout across the country.
After his high school career playing for the Peru Nighthawks and one year at Cypress Creek in Florida, Maggy committed to play at West Virginia University.
“I’ve put in my blood, sweat and tears into WVU baseball,” Maggy said.
During Maggy’s first year, he was a redshirt, so he didn’t get to play much ball.
“That takes a special kind of kid to be able to do that. But he’s you know, he’s not there to be a cheerleader,” Joel Maggy said. “He’s there to work hard and be part of it.”
This past season in his second year, Maggy and the Mountaineers made history. WVU baseball went to the Men’s College World Series for the first time in school history.
“Just being able to go out there and lay it out on the line and compete for a national championship, it doesn’t get much better than that in terms of college baseball,” Maggy said.
Now, Maggy will take his talents to Bloomington, IN, to become a Hoosier. It’s a move that allows him to bet on himself.
“If I want to play professional baseball and not just say that I want to play pro, I have to go somewhere where I’m going to get the opportunities to go and play every single day and go and compete every single day and be able to put my talent out there,” Maggy said.
It’s the love for the game at a very young age that has prepared him for the moment.
“Playing every day and being able to get out there and compete and play and practice every day,” Maggy said. “That’s what separates people is if you really love it or not, and I really do love it.”