The Ultimate Competitor: How Ravens’ Tyler Linderbaum balanced standout four-sport high school career while becoming an elite lineman

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It was the summer of 2018, and Tyler Linderbaum had just completed his daily assignments for the University of Iowa’s summer program.

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He drove roughly 20 minutes from Iowa City to Solon (Iowa) High School. Shortly after that journey, he put on a pair of batting gloves.

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While he was a freshman lineman for the Hawkeyes, he was also moonlighting as a first baseman and pitcher for the Solon High baseball team.

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In Iowa, baseball is played in the summer, so Linderbaum had a choice: he could focus solely on his college football career and skip his senior baseball season

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Ever the competitor, Linderbaum, chose Option B, which didn’t surprise any of his many high school coaches.

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“He wasn’t going to pass that up,” said Keith McSweeney, Linderbaum’s high school baseball coach.

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“We were just lucky that he committed to Iowa, and he didn’t commit to Minnesota or one of the other programs that he had an offer to,

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