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J.D. Martinez and the Three Sharks who went from Nova Southeastern to MLB Opening Day Rosters
Nova Southeastern has become quite the DII baseball factory. Winners of the 2016 national championship, the Sharks are the only program in DII to have four alum represented on 2018 Opening Day rosters.
It all started with the 2009 class. J.D. Martinez, Michael Fiers and Miles Mikolas led the Sharks to a 37-19 record before all going in the same MLB Draft that summer.
“I believe that 2009 season was that moment in time that the NSU baseball program was put on the national scene,” then-head coach and current Athletic Director Michael Mominey told NCAA.com. “Our real focus was building a championship program with local kids starting with Broward, Palm Beach and Dade counties. All four of these guys came from highly-regarded high school programs in South Florida, so this was definitely an affirmation of what we have set out to accomplish when we got here. It was a great benchmark for things to come in the future. It changed recruiting, the perception of the program and garnering national attention.”
