Michael Cvetich was voted least likely to return to school in his senior year of High school. Now, you know him as the AP Psychology, AP World History, and AP US History teacher.
Mr. Cvetich was born in San Diego, California. He is the oldest of five siblings: two brothers and two sisters. Growing up with Serbian immigrant grandparents, he had a slightly different childhood from the rest of his friends.
“On weekends, I was Serbian, and on weekdays, I was American,” said Mr. Cvetich.
After High School, Mr. Cvetich moved to Serbia for a few years. Then he went to U.C. Merced for college. He has a degree in Psychology and a minor in Philosophy and English. Out of college, he wanted to be a therapist, but because of the long residency required to become one, he felt like there needed to be more time.
“I already felt like I was too old to wait for that,” said Mr. Cvetich
Mr. C started playing baseball during his senior year of high school. His math teacher started the team and recruited him as a pitcher after watching him play football and basketball. When he returned from Serbia after high school, he started playing baseball for his college, U.C. Merced.
“I had no intention of playing baseball. I accidentally walked into tryouts… but once I realized I could be good at it, the competitive side of me kicked in, and I was like I am going to be good at this,” said Mr. C
He played at Merced for his junior and senior years, and after graduating in 2010, he played minor league baseball for three years. After an arm injury, he switched to independent baseball, which he played for about eight years.
“I’ve learned to take myself less seriously. It taught me to stress less.”
In 2013, he got hired at his old high school in Sacramento to work in IT. In his third and last year at that school, he taught part as a philosophy teacher.
He knew Sacramento wasn’t where he was meant to be.
“I wanted to see how I would do, and that opportunity wasn’t in Sacramento,” Said Mr. Cvetich.
So, he interviewed around the country and found a job in Nantucket teaching Humanities to 7th and 8th graders. While teaching there, he played baseball in the Cape League. After three years, he moved to Reno, where he taught 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th-grade history, AP psychology, Senior Seminar, and Philosophy. Along with all of these classes, he also coached soccer and varsity girls’ and boys’ basketball.