WINONA, Minn. – An exercise science grad student at Winona State University, Jose Benjamin, couldn’t have been more surprised. He opened his online LinkedIn page and found a message that he had been awarded an assistantship with the Boston Red Sox baseball club. “I wasn’t expecting it at all because I wasn’t job searching or anything,” Benjamin said. The assistantship is nine months.

Benjamin. At Winona State he’s studying in the new performance analytics program.