The phone call that changed Ty Stott’s life rang his dorm room at USC Spartanburg on an ordinary autumn afternoon. On the other end of the line spoke Jeff Wilson, Polk County High School’s head baseball coach at the time but preparing to make a move to lead the Wolverine softball program. Apply for the opening, Wilson said. Come back home to Polk County. And suddenly Stott cared only about the job he never knew he wanted.
