North Side alum Currie headed for WKU

Colie Currie is headed back to NCAA Division I baseball.

The North Side alumnus went to Kentucky for a semester before deciding to take the junior college route.

After two years at Walters State, it was time to make a choice of where he would finish out his college career and education. That place is Western Kentucky.

“They started talking to me before our conference tournament, and they came and watched me play a few times,” Currie said. “What I liked hearing when I talked to them was that they needed a centerfielder who could come in and play right away.”

That’s what Currie wanted to do, and that’s the chance he has. He said he wasn’t sure of how he did in every game WKU’s coaches watched.

“I know in one game in our district tournament, which is the tournament right before the [junior college world series], I went 2-for-4 with two singles and two stolen bases,” Currie said. “We kept talking, and then I went and visited with them in the first week of June.”

Currie said he was pretty sure they wanted him to be a part of their team, but they didn’t actually offer a scholarship until he came onto campus. He was pretty sure he would accept it, but he didn’t decide to immediately.

“There were a couple other schools I was talking to and was going to take visits to, and one fell through and the other was Jacksonville State in Alabama,” Currie said. “I liked what Western Kentucky had to offer, and that’s where I went.”

Currie said he was glad he decided to play in junior college for a couple years as it helped in his development as a player. He hopes the move to Western Kentucky continues that process and helps him make his ultimate goal of playing pro baseball a reality.

“I need to get better hitting against faster pitching and just playing the game,” Currie said. “That’s what I’ll try to do at Western Kentucky.”

Currie plans to move to Bowling Green and get on campus in mid-July so he can get accustomed to the strength and conditioning program on campus and acclimate himself to life at the school before he starts classes in the fall.

Brandon Shields, 425-9751