More than a dozen former Grand Canyon University baseball players remain on the same team as members of the Phoenix Fire Department. “We all put a GCU sticker on our helmets,” Captain Austin Moreland said Tuesday. “It’s kind of our way of staying connected to each other and to the school, remembering our roots as baseball players there.” Moreland played catcher at Grand Canyon University from 2000 to 2004. “I know of at least 13 guys that work for Phoenix Fire that played baseball at GCU,” he said. “But we have a lot of guys who we played baseball with working at surrounding departments like Peoria and Glendale.” Moreland believes the lessons learned as college athletes have prepared him and his teammates in more ways than one for their firefighting careers.