Tyler Cyr hails from Fremont, and he is a freshman here at Skyline College. He comes to Skyline College despite the presence of other baseball programs closer to home because of the professorial conduct of the baseball coaching staff here at Skyline College and the care they display in ensuring that players learn the skills required to be successful in the game of baseball.

Tyler’s love of baseball is evidenced by his desire to make it to the major leagues and the hard work he puts in learning everything he can during practice.

“I want to be there in the system single A’s, triple A’s, or whatever, you know,” Tyler said when asked what he hoped to achieve with his baseball skills. “Just getting paid to play baseball is pretty much my life goal.” Yet his hopes of making it to the major leagues haven’t stopped him from considering his academic goal, which is to become an X-ray technician. If Cyr does make it to the major leagues, he plans to set aside money to fund his own higher education.

The baseball coaching staff here at Skyline College, such as Head Coach Dino Nomicos and Assistant Coaches John Quintell, Lucas Borgo and Brandon Ramsey, have been more than helpful in teaching Cyr the skills he needs in order to become a better pitcher and player.

“We have a good coaching staff,” Cyr said. “I’ve learned more about baseball in the last six months of being here than in my whole life.”

“I think Tyler has learned a lot and is going to be very good next year as a sophomore, and he’s got a lot of potential to play professorial baseball,” Nomicos said when asked about Tyler’s development as a player so far in the season.

“He just needs to keep working and getting better.”

This growth is evidenced by his description of what he’s learned of the game of baseball from Nomicos, whom he credits with teaching him that the game of baseball isn’t only a physical game but also a mental game between a pitcher and a batter.

“When you’re a freshman coming into this program, there’s a lot of work that’s needed, so it’s a building in progress,” said catcher Colton Hicks. “I see that he’s improving. I feel that he’s on the right path. . . . But it’s more about getting experience under your belt heading into the next season because once you’ve been though the battle and then once you’re a sophomore, you have a better understanding of the situation, and it’s a lot easier for you.”

“We have a lot of core guys (the coaching staff) that help us out,” Cyr said. “I like that. It’s a good environment to be around, you know, they’re all for us and not for themselves. It’s really all about us; I like that.”