Pro Pokes: All-American Cowboy McCain Continues Success After Baseball

An outfielder at Oklahoma State from 2015-17, Garrett McCain was part of the Cowboys’ 2016 College World Series group and posted a .338 profession batting common in 130 video games.
 
A local of Wylie, Texas, McCain capped his profession with a junior season that noticed him earn first-team All-America honors after main the Big 12 with a .388 batting common to go together with 4 homers, 14 doubles, 5 triples, 19 stolen bases and a .549 slugging proportion. He led the Cowboys to the Big 12 Championship title and was named the tourney’s Most Outstanding Player.
 
Drafted within the 10^th spherical of the 2017 Major League Baseball Draft by Detroit, McCain performed 138 video games over two seasons within the Tigers’ group.
 
Since retiring from baseball, McCain, who earned his diploma from OSU in enterprise administration, has loved a profitable profession within the monetary providers trade and at present works for FortySix Venture Capital in Tulsa.
 
Garrett McCain
Investor Relations Associate
FortySix Venture Capital
Tulsa, OK

You have been drafted and performed two seasons of professional baseball. How gratifying was that have and what made you resolve baseball was over for you?

GM: As a child all I might dream about was enjoying skilled baseball. From a younger age, I made a decision that was the career I needed to pursue and was prepared to place the whole lot I had into making an attempt to make that dream a actuality. While not reaching the final word stage that I had dreamt of and hoped for, attending to say I had the chance and attending to eternally have the label of “professional baseball player” is one thing that I’m extremely grateful for and owe quite a lot of thanks to people who helped alongside the best way. 

Walking away from the sport I liked for thus lengthy was clearly an extremely powerful and thought-out resolution. I do know everybody should hold them up in some unspecified time in the future, and oftentimes it’s earlier than they’d hoped. That positively was the case for me. However, when assessing the place I used to be in my profession and mapping out the private life I desired to have, my spouse and I felt that stepping away and pursuing issues in a distinct career was going to be the best choice for us as opposed persevering with to chase my baseball dream with one other group.

What have you ever executed since retiring from professional ball?

GM: After baseball I lived in Dallas a bit till I obtained married on the finish of 2019. My spouse and I moved to Oklahoma City and lived there for nearly 2 years. While there, I obtained into the monetary providers trade serving to purchasers handle their funding and insurance coverage portfolios.  I started that profession path with a agency in Stillwater to start with of 2020 after which switched to an OKC based mostly agency on the finish of 2020. 

My spouse and I moved to Tulsa in May of 2021 at which level I moved my follow once more to a Tulsa-based agency and commenced servicing and rising my clientele with a Tulsa focus. 

While nonetheless working my planning follow, in February of 2022, I helped begin and run the NIL Collective at Oklahoma State previously often known as “Unbridled” now often known as “Pokes with a Purpose.” I now at present serve on the board of Pokes with a Purpose.

Lastly, in November of 2022, I started a brand new path within the monetary providers trade as an Investor Relations Associate main the capital increase for a Venture Capital Firm based mostly out of Tulsa.

 

What is your function along with your present firm and describe what you do?

GM: In my present function with FortySix Venture Capital because the Investor Relations Associate, I’m in control of main and working the capital increase for our enterprise fund.  My day-to-day is spent assembly with eligible buyers, educating them on what we do and the way enterprise capital works, after which assessing if investing in our fund could be a very good match for his or her funding portfolios. Once in our fund, I handle the communications to and from our fund supervisor and keep the connection with the investor in hopes they’ll proceed to allocate a few of their funding portfolio to our future funds.

It can also be my duty to replace our fund buyers on the offers we’re seeing and investing in so I additionally sit in on pitch conferences with the potential founders our fund will put money into.

 

How did being a student-athlete at OSU put together you for all times after faculty?

GM: Being a pupil athlete at Oklahoma State was a significant half to making ready me for all times after faculty. Not solely did it present me with the abilities to have the ability to effectively handle my time, carry out my tasks successfully and produce beneath stress, nevertheless it additionally has offered me with unimaginable relationships which can be the one motive I’m the place I’m as we speak. The Cowboy community is huge reaching and full of unimaginable people who find themselves prepared to get to know you, hear your story and assist in any means they’ll. I noticed that as a student-athlete in Stillwater, and I see it day-after-day within the enterprise world with folks everywhere in the nation.

 

What are your future objectives as a enterprise skilled?

GM: Professionally, I’ve some lofty objectives for myself. I see myself staying on this planet of personal investments and want to grow to be companion and handle my very own fund. Fortunately, the agency that I’m with aligns with that imaginative and prescient, and I consider I’ll have each alternative on this rising enterprise capital ecosystem to just do that. FortySix is among the leaders regionally and plans on gaining a nationwide presence within the enterprise area and getting to assist construct that from the bottom up is inspiring. 

 

Talk a little bit bit about getting concerned with NIL and Pokes With A Purpose and what you do for that.

GM: My NIL journey is kind of fascinating. I obtained in on the bottom stage earlier than actually anybody knew what collectives have been and in the event that they have been going to catch on and achieve success. I used to be approached and was a candidate to start out one of many first collectives nationally for one more college and as soon as that did not pan out, I introduced the thought to Oklahoma State. Fortunately, I used to be paired with the precise individuals who on the time aligned with the imaginative and prescient I had for NIL at Oklahoma State and collectively began Unbridled. As a co-founder and the Executive Director, I helped lay the infrastructure and put into place finest practices for elevating and distributing NIL funds to our pupil athletes. 

In May of 2022, Unbridled merged with Pokes with a Purpose, and I joined as a board member. My function and day-to-day actions modified from making organizational and operational choices to serving to with methods to lift cash in addition to arrange and execute on the funds of our student-athletes. 

Since the becoming a member of of my enterprise agency, I’ve handed up most of my duties to different board members, however I nonetheless plan on being as concerned as I can attributable to my love and dedication to OSU athletics in addition to having a very good pulse and connections to all issues NIL. 

What is your favourite OSU baseball reminiscence?

GM: It must be our postseason run in 2016. At the start of every season, groups throughout the nation set the objective of reaching Omaha, and to be one of many eight groups to perform that in 2016 was particular. The path we took wasn’t typical, and that added to the thrill and thrill of that postseason. Spending two weeks in South Carolina along with your closest pals solely to increase the season one other few weeks in arguably one of many high sporting occasions on this planet is one thing I’ll all the time cherish.

Is there anything else you wish to add about your OSU expertise on and/or off the sector?

GM: I can not thank everybody sufficient for making my faculty expertise what it was. I’m not the person, nor would I’ve been the baseball participant I used to be, with out everybody who helped me alongside the best way. From coaches, to workers, to teachers, to services, I firmly consider I had one of many best all-around faculty athletic experiences, and all of the help and assist alongside the best way did not go unnoticed. Oklahoma State Baseball brings a wealthy custom, and it is an honor to have represented one of the vital historic applications in faculty sports activities and to be talked about alongside a few of the finest to play on the collegiate stage.