Pierce Quinn started playing baseball when he was five years old. Now in his junior year, he has been a part of the JC varsity program for three years.

Additionally, he plays for USA Prime National for the club team. The JC baseball team has always made him feel welcome and like family to him which made him love the sport more.

Pierce’s biggest inspiration is his pitching coach Mark Shives. “He treats me like family and has helped me become the player I am today. I look up to the way he carries himself and the confidence he shows when doing anything.”

He is a one-sport athlete committed to the University of Virginia for his baseball and pitching skills, “I chose Virginia because I was able to connect personally with the coaches and be comfortable around them. It’s a very academic based school, and I want to be an engineer, so that was very important to me and a plus factor. Their facilities are also some of the best, and they are ranked in the top 30 nationally for all of college baseball.”

Virginia was not his dream school; he always wanted to go to Texas or LSU. Either way, he still has been blessed to go D1 and be called a Cavalier.

Pierce has won many awards like being selected to this year’s MSABC Preseason All-State Team and has started in the 2025 spring season. He has also won All-Conference, Preseason All-Conference, Newcomer of the Year, and Pitcher of the Year.

His favorite game in his baseball career was last summer when he pitched at a tournament called Future Games in Georgia. “It was the last tournament of the season and the last time college coaches could see me before they could make offers, so it was the last time to impress and go all out. The tournament had 400 scouts in attendance, so it was the best environment I’ve ever played in.”