A Letter to My Younger Self
Anthony LoRicco
Letter to 18-year-old Anthony LoRicco,
The next 47 months will push you to become a better version of yourself athletically, academically, and socially.
Uncle John told you that you would find some of your lifelong friends within your first day of being at the academy and that could not be any truer.
The shared experiences you will endure will make you only deepen the connection with your teammates on baseball as well as the people you live with.
Over the course of four years, you will have the opportunity to learn as well as lead. Baseball will teach you so many life lessons that you could never get anywhere else. It will show you that respect is earned with an immense amount of hard work and to never stop looking to improve in every facet of life.
No one said that West Point was going to be easy, especially as an athlete and that is exactly what you are going to endure. At the end of all the struggle and learning, you will reap the greatest reward that anyone could ask for. That reward is getting to represent something bigger than yourself and an institution as prolific as the United States Military Academy.
At the end of all the struggle and learning, you will reap the greatest reward that anyone could ask for. That reward is getting to represent something bigger than yourself and an institution as prolific as the United States Military Academy.
At this point of your life, you understand that you want to live above the normal level of life and to pave a path that is different from both your friends and family. Playing baseball at West Point is the perfect way to leverage that drive. The learning experiences you will have over the next 47 months will be rival to nothing else that can be thrown at you. It is both a privilege and an honor to take on these challenges and be able to learn from them.
I know that you do not understand the gravitas of the step your about to take on your first day through the doors of Ike Hall but never give up because at the end of the journey you are about to endure is an unrivaled experience that no one can ever take away from you.
- Anthony LoRicco, West Point Class of 2022