By: Betsy Helfand
For junior pitcher Neal Kunik, the third time was the charm.
After trying to walk on to the Gophers baseball team as a freshman and again as a sophomore, Kunik finally made the team his junior year.
Though many would have given up after the first or second rejection, a stubborn streak persuaded Kunik to continue to pursue his dream.
“[I’m] pretty hard-set in my ways, so when I set out to achieve this goal specifically, I was telling myself I wasn’t going to stop before I got it done,” Kunik said.