ALL-USA BASEBALL
The best prep stars including Player of the Year Jordon Adell
Jordon Adell
OF, Ballard, Louisville Height, weight: 6-3, 205 The future: Signed with Louisville. Drafted No. 10 by Los Angeles Angels.
By the numbers: Hit .562 with 25 home runs, 61 RBI and 22 steals and .667 on-base percentage. Also won the University of Louisville’s Woodford R. Porter Scholarship, given to an AfricanAmerican student from Kentucky or from Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry or Scott counties in Indiana who has demonstrated strong leadership and extracurricular involvement and has at least a 3.0 grade-point average. Unusual skill: I can speak fluent Pig Latin. My mom taught it to me when I was a kid, and I thought it was a real language. Biggest accomplishments: Playing in the Under Armour AllAmerica Game as an underclassman, because I was one of two underclassmen chosen. The other one was when I hit the game-winning grand slam to advance to state my sophomore year. Biggest disappointment: Losing in the first round in the districts this year was definitely sad. My high school team had eight guys that I played with, on and off, since I was 8 years old. You don’t expect your season to be done that quickly.
Nickname: Jo. My real name
is Jordon but everyone knows me as Jo. A lot of people don’t even know my name is Jordon. My least-favorite nickname is to have someone call me Joey. Favorite MLB player: Adam Jones.
Favorite phrase: Something that I use to remind myself is “Be where your feet are.” That was something Coach Mac (Louisville coach Dan McDonnell) told me. Yes, you’re committed to the University of Louisville, but look where you are. You’re about to be a sophomore in Ballard High School, and that’s where your feet are. I’m not going to get ahead of myself. I’m going to stay with what I know and where I am.