Panik attended John Jay High School in Hopewell Junction , New York . He went to college at St. John 's University , where he played for the St. John 's Red Storm baseball team , playing in the Big East Conference . After his sophomore season in 2010 , he played collegiate summer baseball for the Yarmouth – Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod Baseball League , where he batted .297 in 50 games , and was named the starting shortstop for the East Division All-Star team . Panik compiled a .398 batting average with 19 doubles , 10 home runs and 57 runs batted in ( RBI ) during his junior season , ranking tenth among college baseball players with a .509 on-base percentage ( OBP ) . Panik played the first game at Citi Field in a preseason game between St. John 's University and Georgetown on March 29 , 2009
Big East Conference
Big East Conference (1979–2013)
Joe Panik