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Reeves has swapped his beach volleyball for his baseball gear

Posted by devo on October 21, 2009

When it came to choosing a life or chasing a distant sporting dream, Robert Reeves had to make a tough call. …

He was … chosen in the national squad to contest the junior beach volleyball world championships at London in June. But it would have required about $6000 of his own money plus lots of time spent at the Australian Institute of Sport training camp in Adelaide. Beyond that the AIS were talking about plans until 2016, for which he was expected to sacrifice any future career plans and the life of a normal young man.

“I decided I didn’t really want to do it,” Reeves said. “I decided to go to uni instead. Just paying for it was getting too hard. more@QT