Jack of All Trades Alex Chambers ’22 Finds Success With Toronto Blue Jays

Savannah Brooks ’26

Managing Editor

Alex Chambers ’22 is no stranger to success. A four-sport athlete in high school, WRTC station manager, staff writer for the Tripod and a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society, Chambers seemingly does everything (all while boasting a .444 batting average on Trinity’s softball team as a captain her senior year). In an interview with the Tripod, Chambers reflected on her time at Trinity as well as her job as a player development coordinator in the Toronto Blue Jays’ farm system.

“I just can’t be idle at all,” Chambers told the Tripod. “With the saying ‘jack of all trades, but master of none;’ I really hate that saying, but that really is me. And it’s not that you’re a master of none, but being able to be involved in so many things that helps you form these very small skill sets that then are used to kind of synthesize everything and make you really good at solving problems in creative ways. I’m extremely grateful for all of the things I was involved in at Trinity, like WRTC, the radio station, and speaking on air. It made me comfortable presenting to a roomful of players. If I can speak on the radio, I can talk to a roomful of professional baseball players. There’s just small things like that. I think it’s just made me a more well-rounded person and has really helped me to just adapt and learn.”

After graduating from Trinity, Chambers interned with the Blue Jays for a year and a half before transitioning into her current full time position. At Toronto’s Player Development Complex, Chambers has a plethora of responsibilities that reflect her myriad of interests. “I’m helping with roster management,” she said. “I assist with player travel and I run our hitting lab. It’s like an indoor batting cage on steroids. We are recording biomechanical data, putting together reports and giving that data and information back to players. So I manage all of the operations of that building. It’s a mixed bag; just a lot of everything.”  

Chambers has wanted to work in baseball her entire life. When asked about how she maintained faith that she would be able to make it in such a male-dominated field, she said “It’s a lot of negativity, but deep down, I know the value that I bring and I know the passion that I have for this. I think it’s just about putting your head down and focusing on what you care about, what you’re passionate about, and just doing it and worrying about what other people have to say after.” Although her physics major and English minor have helped her analyze swings and present her findings in writing, she expressed that “it’s just really amazing, how much more there is to learn once you’re out in the real world. I think being very open to learning and finding a love of learning is part of the reason why I’ve had quick success here, because each offseason I would teach myself a new skill.”

To current students who consider themselves a jack of trades, Chambers says to slow down and “keep all the doors open. If you enjoy doing 15 things, do 15 things, and I promise you the doors will close on their own. But don’t put yourself into a box. I’m making sure the stuff I’m doing is aligned with what I’m passionate about and making sure I’m not draining myself. Because if you’re coming to work every day and you aren’t enjoying it and it’s not aligned with what you need to be a fulfilled, happy person, like, what are we doing? It’s just not worth the effort.”