UCF football star plays baseball game, runs to field for spring game: ‘This is a dream for me’

Being a multi-sport athlete in college isn’t unusual, nevertheless it does include quite a lot of stress, particularly when key video games land on the identical day. 

Simply ask University of Central Florida’s John Rhys Plumlee, who needed to rush from the baseball discipline to the soccer discipline this previous weekend. 

However he wouldn’t change it for the world. 

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John Rhys Plumlee of Central Florida throughout an NCAA school basketball recreation in opposition to Siena, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, in Orlando, Fla. Plumlee is the consummate two-sport athlete for Central Florida. (AP Photograph/Terrance Coakley)

“One of many coolest days of my life, and I believe I’m in all probability going to die with it being one of many coolest days of my life,” Plumlee mentioned, through The Related Press. “I’m tremendous, tremendous grateful and blessed to have the ability to do what I do and have the ability to have the enjoyable that I’m in a position to have. It is a film for me. It is a dream for me. Second-grad John Rhys dreamed about at the present time for a very long time.”

Plumlee went 2-for-3 with a triple and two RBI throughout Friday’s 12-3 win for the UCF Knights over Memphis, however he was taken out of the sport within the seventh inning to hurry over to the soccer locker room.

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The quarterback wanted to get his pads on for the spring recreation that was going down. 

Plumlee ran off the baseball discipline, cleats and all, and was pushed by a golf cart over to the soccer services. He rushed via his altering, getting some assist with the pads, and he was on the Knights’ soccer sideline seven minutes after leaving the baseball discipline. 

“I believe it must be a world document,” Plumlee mentioned, through AP. 

John Rhys Plumlee #10 of the UCF Knights drops again to go in opposition to the Duke Blue Devils within the Army Bowl Offered by Peraton  at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on December 28, 2022 in Annapolis, Maryland. (G Fiume/Getty Photos)

Plumlee transferred from Ole Miss in January 2022 after enjoying three seasons with the Rebels’ soccer group and two seasons with their baseball group. Whereas he was in a position to play soccer in 2022, he missed a deadline for baseball. 

However he’s within the fold this yr, which made head soccer coach Gus Malzahn and head baseball coach Greg Lovelady determine a schedule they had been each proud of for Plumlee. 

Final season on the soccer discipline for the Knights, Plumlee threw for two,586 yards with 14 touchdowns to eight interceptions, whereas speeding for 862 yards with 11 touchdowns. The Knights went 9-5 total, which led to a bowl look. 

John Rhys Plumlee #10 of the UCF Knights walks again to the locker room after defeating the Cincinnati Bearcats 25-21 at FBC Mortgage Stadium on October 29, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. (Julio Aguilar/Getty Photos)

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On the baseball diamond, Plumlee is hitting .313/.412/.522 with 5 homers, seven doubles and 15 RBI in 35 video games the place he performs heart discipline.