{"id":75234,"date":"2019-03-07T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=75234"},"modified":"2019-03-07T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:03:24","slug":"freshman-focus-northwestern-catcher-michael-trautwein-hopes-to-etch-a-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/freshman-focus-northwestern-catcher-michael-trautwein-hopes-to-etch-a-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman Focus: Meet the 2018-19 rookies of Northwestern baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andre Toran<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Freshman Focus: Episode 2 Shawn Goosenberg by Andre Toran\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F585607428&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=800&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\"><strong>March 7 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Episode two of Freshman Focus brings you freshman IF\/OF Shawn Goosenberg. The California native talks about his commitment to Northwestern University, baseball and his decision to become a Wildcat.<\/p>\n<p>Goosenberg felt he fit within Northwestern&#8217;s culture and loves the opportunities the university offers for student athletes to succeed beyond athletics once they graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Northwestern Head Baseball Coach Spencer Allen emphasizes how valuable a grab Goosenberg is for the freshman class, raving about the player&#8217;s instincts and versatility.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Northwestern&#8217;s Shawn Goosenberg (left) lines up his defense in a matchup with Georgia Tech. (Carolyn Katz\/Carolyn Katz Photography)<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Freshman Focus: Episode 1 Michael Trautwein by Andre Toran\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F566732193&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=800&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\"><strong>Feb. 1<\/strong> &#8211; This is the first episode of Freshman Focus, a <em>Medill Reports<\/em> audio series highlighting the newcomers to the Northwestern University baseball team. In this kick-off profile, meet freshman catcher Michael Trautwein, a legacy player for the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77267\" style=\"width: 1100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77267\" src=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/traut.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Trautwein \" width=\"1100\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/traut.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/traut-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/traut-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/traut-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/traut-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northwestern catcher Michael Trautwein stands between pitches in a game vs. University of California, Berkeley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Though Trautwein\u2019s father attended and played for the university in the early \u201880s, Michael plans to establish his own footsteps and hopes to etch a legacy that makes his name synonymous with Northwestern baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Wildcats\u2019 assistant coach Dusty Napoleon \u2013 who works primarily with the catchers \u2013 chimes in about the team\u2019s expectations for Michael and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andre Toran Medill Reports March 7 &#8211;\u00a0Episode two of Freshman Focus brings you freshman IF\/OF Shawn Goosenberg. The California native talks about his commitment to Northwestern University, baseball and his decision to become a Wildcat. Goosenberg felt he fit within Northwestern&#8217;s culture and loves the opportunities the university offers for student athletes to succeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":77276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4559],"tags":[4599,4600],"class_list":["post-75234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-winter-2019","tag-northwestern-baseball","tag-northwestern-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Freshman Focus: Meet the 2018-19 rookies of Northwestern baseball - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/freshman-focus-northwestern-catcher-michael-trautwein-hopes-to-etch-a-legacy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Freshman Focus: Meet the 2018-19 rookies of Northwestern baseball - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Andre Toran Medill Reports March 7 &#8211;\u00a0Episode two of Freshman Focus brings you freshman IF\/OF Shawn Goosenberg. 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