By Georgiana Elder Special to the Pilot
DONALDSON — Spring 2007.
Brady Click stands in position between the second and third base. Eyes on the ball, the Ancilla baseball player, a sophomore recruited in 2007, appears concentrated, visualizing his opponents’ next move.
Don’t always assume that the players are mentally present in the game. They might appear to be involved, but really the participant may be daydreaming. The 19-year-old from Frankfort secretly pictures himself teasing his guitar and singing along on stage in Nashville.

Instead of hearing the loud calls screamed out by the baseball crowd, Click hears the fans chanting his name and sees the lighters — or cell phones these days — brightly swaying back and forth to the rhythm of the song.
Click, a second year returning student at Ancilla, came to this college to play baseball. Yet his true passion resides in music.
“I have been playing baseball my whole life,” he said. “My mom’s side was very athletic, but I always had a passion to sing and play. I definitely would choose singing over baseball any day. I have a passion to sing, and I love it,” laughed Click.
If Click believes that he inherited athletic and artistic talents from his parents, he particularly praises his father’s connections with the musical scene. His grandfather played with the legendary Hank Williams and went to the Grand Ole Opry as well as Nashville.
Williams was regarded as one of the most influential songwriters and musicians of the 20th century.
Trying to emulate his forefather, Click is putting his talent to use.
“I’m currently in a band called Untucked. There are five people including myself and actually my younger brother who is a junior in high school. The other three are two 24-year-olds and another male who is in the same grade as my brother.”
Untucked was created before Click joined the band. “The two guys we have now were in it before. One of them is the worship leader and the other is the bass player in church,” commented Click, who belongs to the Baptist church of Frankfort.
“We sing in our church’s praise band and that is how we actually all met and got together. We just don’t sing Christian music either; we also play rock and country music also,” Click added.  
Like most artists, the band creates its own music. For Untucked, it means that the lead singer and Click write their songs.
“We usually write about life and like all the other bands, we have a song about us making it,” said Click.
Untucked just doesn’t sing happy songs either. “We have a song about my best friend who reached the high point of success in his life but sadly before signing a record deal died of cancer. Another true emotional song that we sing is about a drummer who was a part of the band at the time he committed suicide.”
That was before Click joined the band. “We have our own MySpace on the Internet where you can find our original songs and such.”
So why Ancilla, you wonder, instead of going right into the music industry? Click said, “I decided to come to Ancilla because it is a two-year college; and I also got hurt in high school and I had to change positions so therefore, I decided to come to Ancilla so that I can continue on to a four-year college and to better myself in baseball. I can still sing and play in my free time — like every Sunday morning at church and all the time in the summer — but it’s really hard to get the band together  because I’m in school,” said Click, with a sad tone.
Finding time in their daily lives to practice seems very difficult.
“I have school and baseball;  my brother has school; his friend does too and the two 24-year-olds have jobs and their own lives, too,” he said.
But Click and his band still find time to sing and play at his church weekly.
And if you happen to be in attendance one Sunday do not expect him to play “MmmBop” by Hanson — although it is one of his favorite childhood songs. Look forward to hearing tunes that are contemporary, country and even rock.