Will Toffey is a stud. His list of team and individual accomplishments are astounding. His is a baseball diamond in the rough and the proverbial Northeast Prep School hockey product.
Toffey was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts to a family with bloodlines thick with baseball experience. Jack, Will's father, pitched in the Pittsburgh Pirates orginization, and his older brother, John pitched and played hockey at Umass-Amherst and was drafted by both the NHL and MLB. He went on to play hockey in the East Coast Hockey League for three years.
Toffey is a Cape Cod outlier, as Toffey got a scholarship to Vanderbilt to play for Head Baseball Coach Tim Corbin, a Wolfeboro, New Hampshire native. It takes quite a talent to play at Vanderbilt, as the Southeastern Conference is regarded as the elite of College Baseball, but it takes a special and truly unique type to break the line that is drawn at the Kentucky-Virginia line.
Toffey left Barnstable High School as a junior to attend Salisbury High School. Salisbury, coached by Will's brother John, is a perennial Prep School and New England that has sent over 30 players to the next level over the past nine years. It is a normal occurrence for a high school athlete that goes to a public school to switch in favor of the greater exposure and competition that a prep school can bring, both academically and athletically.
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