Emily Vakos’s personal life
Emily Vakos is a certified school nutrition specialist and a real estate broker. She graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in nutrition and food management and has worked in both the nutrition field and real estate.
She was born on January 6, 1994, in Dallas, Texas, to Mark Vakos and Stephanie Sudwischer. she works with a Real Estate based company and even worked as a distributor for Herbalife in 2014. Additionally, as an assistant to St.
Mary’s Food Bank Alliance, she helped grow food within the company. Emily Vakos is famous for being the wife of an American professional baseball player, Anthony Rizzo. She is inactive on social media platforms like Instagram, facebook, and Twitter. Here we will discuss her husband’s successful career.
Emily Vakos’s husband, Anthony Rizzo
Anthony Rizzo is an American professional baseball player who has a net worth of $27 million. Anthony Rizzo was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1989. The Boston Red Sox drafted him during the sixth round of the 2007 MLB Draft.
He went through the Red Sox farm system before making his MLB debut on June 9, 2011 for the San Diego Padres. He played for the Padres during the 2011 season before he was traded to the Chicago Cubs in 2012.As of the fall of 2014, Rizzo remains with the Cubs. The left-handed first baseman has a career batting average of .254 to go along with 405 hits, 71 home runs, and 215 runs batted in through the end of the 2014 season.
He earned his first All-Star berth in 2014, the same year he won the Branch Rickey Award, given annually to a MLB player who has shown excellent service to his community. Rizzo decided to play with the Italian national team during the World Baseball Classic in 2013 to honor his family’s Sicilian heritage, as they came from the town of Ciminna. He successfully beat a cancer diagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma that he received in May of 2008. Rizzo was a sixth-round draft choice out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft by the Red Sox.
He was heading for Florida Atlantic University before he was drafted and signed, with a $325,000 signing bonus. Rizzo played in the Red Sox organization with the Gulf Coast League Red Sox, Greenville Drive, Salem Red Sox and the Portland Sea Dogs. Rizzo’s minor league career started at the age of 17 in 2007 in the rookie class with the Gulf Coast League Red Sox In only 21 at bats he hit 286/375/429 with 1 home run and 3 RBIs. In 2008 at the age of 18 Rizzo played in class A with the Greenville Drive in the South Atlantic League. In 83 at bats he hit .373/.402/.446 with 0 home runs, and 11 RBIs. Rizzo hit 12 home runs in 2009.He has a successful career in the sports industry.
