With a couple of major snowstorms that closed school for numerous days in February, the Collegiate baseball team finds itself playing catch up as the season approaches.

  “We have been on a field once in the first two weeks,” said Cougars’ manager Andrew Slater said. “We have had to be creative in our gym space and daily practice plans. However, you cannot control the weather and everyone has been in the same boat.”

  In addition to the delayed start in outside practice time, the Cougars are facing other challenges as they enter this year’s Prep League schedule. The team features only three starters from last year’s squad.

  Slater states that “inexperience” will be one of the team’s major challenges this year. The coach will depend on pitching experience to anchor a young and untested squad.

  Andrew Bronson and Robert Richardson are key returners and will provide the Cougar staff with some needed experience. The team will need both to compete against the likes of St. Christopher’s, Trinity and St. Albans.

  Slater is a 1996 Collegiate graduate and played baseball at University of Richmond and Auburn.