{"id":98812,"date":"2024-01-30T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=98812"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:47:17","slug":"baseball-executive-alum-encourages-students-to-take-risks-build-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/baseball-executive-alum-encourages-students-to-take-risks-build-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Encourages Students to Take Risks, Build Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jin Wong \u201997 was applying for an internship with the Atlanta Braves during his senior year at Mary Washington, he was given a choice. Did he want to interview with baseball legend Hank Aaron over the phone or in person?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them, \u2018Tell me where and when,\u2019\u201d said Wong, who flew south to meet the Baseball Hall of Famer, spending some time getting to know the player who held onto the record for most career homeruns for 33 years. \u201cIt\u2019s all about making connections and building relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now a Major League Baseball executive himself, Wong shared those words of wisdom when he returned to the University of Mary Washington earlier this month to speak with College of Business students, student-athletes and the UMW baseball team. The Alumni Association Board of Directors also presented an evening Q&amp;A for alumni with board member Karmel James \u201913 as host.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:7,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/news\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/30\\\/baseball-executive-alum-encourages-students-to-take-risks-build-relationships\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:230672515}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 809px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"809\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 607px; height: 809px;\" data-original-width=\"607\" data-original-height=\"809\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/baseball-executive-alum-encourages-students-to-take-risks-build-relationships\/jin-wong-4\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"603\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"805\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"98814\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong11-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1123,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Tom Rothenberg&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Jin Wong&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1705601813&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2024\\\/Tom Rothenberg&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;4500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Jin Wong&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong11-1-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong11-1-767x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong11-1.jpg?w=603&#038;h=805&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong11-1.jpg 1123w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong11-1-225x300.jpg 225w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong11-1-767x1024.jpg 767w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong11-1-768x1026.jpg 768w\" width=\"603\" height=\"805\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"603\" data-original-height=\"805\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"\" alt=\"Jin Wong &#039;97 poses for a picture in the College of Business. A business administration major at Mary Washington, he recently accepted the position of assistant general manager for baseball administration with the Chicago White Sox, after 24 years with the Kansas City Royals. Photo by Tom Rothenberg.\" style=\"width: 603px; height: 805px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Jin Wong &#8217;97 poses for a picture in the College of Business. A business administration major at Mary Washington, he recently accepted the position of assistant general manager for baseball administration with the Chicago White Sox, after 24 years with the Kansas City Royals. Photo by Tom Rothenberg. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 493px; height: 809px;\" data-original-width=\"493\" data-original-height=\"809\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/baseball-executive-alum-encourages-students-to-take-risks-build-relationships\/jin-wong-5\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"489\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"343\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"98815\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1796\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Tom Rothenberg&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Jin Wong speaks the the UMW Baseball team&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1705617361&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2024\\\/Tom Rothenberg&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;26&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;900&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Jin Wong&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-300x211.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-1024x719.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-scaled.jpg?w=489&#038;h=343&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-scaled.jpg 2560w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-300x211.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-1024x719.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-768x539.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-1536x1078.jpg 1536w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong30-2048x1437.jpg 2048w\" width=\"489\" height=\"343\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"489\" data-original-height=\"343\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"\" alt=\"UMW alumnus Jin Wong speaks to the Mary Washington baseball team in the Leigh Frackleton Classroom in the College of Business. Photo by Tom Rothenberg.\" style=\"width: 489px; height: 343px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> UMW alumnus Jin Wong speaks to the Mary Washington baseball team in the Leigh Frackleton Classroom in the College of Business. Photo by Tom Rothenberg. <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/25\/new-alumni-of-distinction-gallery-honors-mary-washington-grads\/jin-wong-2\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"489\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"458\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"97034\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2137,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Tom Rothenberg&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Jin Wong&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1705601328&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2024\\\/Tom Rothenberg&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;48&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;8000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Jin Wong&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4-300x281.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4-1024x958.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4.jpg?w=489&#038;h=458&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4.jpg 2137w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4-300x281.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4-1024x958.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4-768x719.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4-1536x1438.jpg 1536w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/TR_UMW_JinWong4-2048x1917.jpg 2048w\" width=\"489\" height=\"458\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"489\" data-original-height=\"458\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"\" alt=\"A member of the inaugural Alumni of Distinction class, Jin Wong &#039;97 was recently named assistant general manager of the Chicago White Sox after 24 years with the Kansas City Royals. He recently visited UMW to speak with business administration students, student-athletes, and alumni. Photo by Tom Rothenberg.\" style=\"width: 489px; height: 458px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> A member of the inaugural Alumni of Distinction class, Jin Wong &#8217;97 was recently named assistant general manager of the Chicago White Sox after 24 years with the Kansas City Royals. He recently visited UMW to speak with business administration students, student-athletes, and alumni. Photo by Tom Rothenberg. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>Wong, a business administration major and Division-III All-American outfielder at Mary Washington, shared insights from his 24 years with the Kansas City Royals and his recent decision to move to the Chicago White Sox. Named to the University\u2019s inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/25\/new-alumni-of-distinction-gallery-honors-mary-washington-grads\/\">Alumni of Distinction<\/a> class, he also had a chance to visit his plaque in the first-floor gallery in George Washington Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best advice he gave was to take risks and jump headfirst into any position in sports you can find,\u201d said junior Thomas Martinez, who plays third base for UMW and aspires to work in sports marketing.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/giving.umw.edu\/blog\/2024\/01\/30\/baseball-executive-alum-encourages-students-to-take-risks-build-relationships\/\">Read more about Jin Wong &#8217;97 at Giving.umw.edu.<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jin Wong \u201997 was applying for an internship with the Atlanta Braves during his senior year at Mary Washington, he was given a choice. Did he want to interview with baseball legend Hank Aaron over the phone or in person? \u201cI told them, \u2018Tell me where and when,\u2019\u201d said Wong, who flew south to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":98850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[704],"tags":[15352,913,15351],"topics":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-alumni-of-distinction-gallery","9":"tag-college-of-business","10":"tag-jin-wong","11":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alum Encourages Students to Take Risks, Build Relationships - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/baseball-executive-alum-encourages-students-to-take-risks-build-relationships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alum Encourages Students to Take Risks, Build Relationships\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When Jin Wong \u201997 was applying for an internship with the Atlanta Braves during his senior year at Mary Washington, he was given a choice. 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