Wisconsin-Whitewater, a school located 52 miles west of Milwaukee, is the alma mater of Quint and Rishy Studer. “But what they appreciate here is everyone is so welcoming and it’s such a amazing facility and the experience is going to be engrained in their heads forever.” They could go to Orlando, they could go to Arizona. There are many other spring break type of tournaments these teams could travel to play.
“That for me is the main impact on these teams. “What you all have really done is you continue to put Pensacola on the map,” he said.
“When you ask these guys about it, they will say, ‘Gosh, Pensacola is really cool.’ The parents come too and they are excited,” said University of Wisconsin-Whitewater coach John Vodenlich, the host school and tournament coordinator, who is in his 20 th season with the Warhawks. Tickets are $10 for each day, allowing fans readmission for games. The nine-day, 28-game event began Tuesday with Carroll facing Spalding University from Louisville, Ky. That kind of hospitality is part of the lure, part of the reason why eight NCAA Division III college teams from five states have traveled this far to play baseball on spring break. When she heard they were playing at Blue Wahoos Stadium in this week’s third annual Studer’s Blue Wahoos Challenge college tournament, she excitedly told Rear, “Oh, I know Quint Studer. Turns out, the woman handling the massive haul was interested in why the baseball team was in town. “I know I’ve gotta go through one of the lines, so I’m trying to figure which (checkout) person might not too upset with five carts of groceries to ring up,” he said, laughing. Head coach Stein Rear stacked five shopping carts to the brim and now faced a dilemma. The first stop for the Carroll University baseball team, after traveling by plane from Waukesha, Wisconsin, was the nearest supermarket to the team’s Pensacola hotel.
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