Brandon Rembert is widely considered by many as one of the premier baseball players in the Southwestern Athletic Conference or SWAC for short. Rembert is an outfielder for HBCU Alcorn State University. The Florida native was named a Pre-Season All-Conference selection by Perfect Game and by the SWAC, garnering 1st-team honors by the SWAC. Brandon has also been considered an MLB Draft prospect for the upcoming draft. Despite all of the accolades and awards, Brandon Rembert plays for a bigger purpose. He hopes to help be a catalyst for African-Americans in the sport of baseball. Rembert states that, “Baseball is not a sport that is predominantly played by African-Americans. Blacks are the minority in this sport. I want to bring awareness to African-Americans about the sport of baseball. I feel like if people can see someone like them doing well in the sport, they might want to flock to the sport also.”

The Southwestern Athletic Conference is home to many HBCU programs such as Southern, Grambling, and Jackson State to name a few. The SWAC is divided up into the East and West division, with Alcorn moving to the West in the 2021-2022 year. Alcorn is home to football great Steve McNair, who was a Heisman Trophy candidate in 1994. Brandon Rembert hopes to be the next great out of Alcorn State. He has big dreams of making it the MLB one day. Brandon states that, “I just want to leave Alcorn knowing that I made an impact at the school. I have a dream of making it to the big leagues one day and to play in front of thousands. There have not been very many people to make it to the big leagues that are from my school. Who knows? I may not ever make it there, but I will work my hardest to give myself the best shot.”