Personal
Parents are Ben and Jeanette ... majored in business.
Before BYU
Utah's top prep player when he led Murray High to the 1990 3A state championship and the American Legion title ... unbeaten as a pitcher through high school and Legion ball ... had a 3.99 grade point average ... lettered four times in tennis and three time sin golf ... all seven teams he played on were region champions ... was Utah's 3A champion for three years at number-two singles and was all-state two years in basketball ... holds school season and career records for home runs, RBI and pitching victories.
Stats
Year Avg. G-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB-SBA 1991 .352 33 54 13 19 4 1 3 20 34 16 16 2-4 1992 .385 54-46 148 56 57 9 0 13 49 105 44 19 4-6 1993 .415 57-57 205 62 85 16 2 15 64 150 51 25 5-7 Year ERA W-L APP GS CG SV IP H R ER BB SO 1991 3.86 7-1 11 11 0 0 65.1 69 36 28 23 41 1992 8.64 6-3 12 11 0 0 50.0 78 57 48 28 47 1993 6.08 2-0 12 1 0 0 23.2 33 17 16 12 15
Runnerup to teammate Ryan Hancock for Western Athletic Conference Freshmen of the Year.
Third-team Academic All-America ... second team All-Western Athletic Conference.
Drafted in the 14th round by the St. Louis Cardinals ... All-Western Athletic Conference, Eastern Division ... named to the 25-man pre-season Mizuno All-America team by Collegiate Baseball ... received BYU's Cameron Tuckett Award ... team tri-captain ... hit a grand slam ... had a 34-game hitting streak stopped in the final game of the season ... No. 29 in NCAA batting.