University of Albany

Team Captain. 2008: One of just four players to start all 55 games for the Great Danes last season... Finished with a .234 average... Recorded 45 hits and scored 34 runs, while batting in another 17... Tallied three hits and scored two runs in four at bats against Hofstra (3/18)... Finished with multiple hits in nine games... Recorded multiple RBI on four occasions.. Struck out just 34 times in 192 at bats... Was walked a team-high 38 times... Posted a .942 fielding percentage at shortstop... Led the team with 123 assists. 2007: Named among the Top Players to Watch in the America East Conference by Collegiate Baseball newspaper... Started all 56 games in which he played... Named to America East second team... Batted .322 on the season, second-highest among regulars... Was second on the team with 37 RBI and tallied nine doubles, two home runs and 34 runs scored... Stole three bases and led the team in walks (43) and times being hit-by-pitch (11)... Recorded 13 games with at least two hits... Drove in at least two runs in nine games... Had an eight-game hit streak from March 18 to March 31... Opened the streak with a 6-for-9 performance with a home run and five runs scored in a three-game set against Delaware State on March 18 and 19... Followed that up by going 5-for-11 with three walks, two RBI and five runs scored in three games Western Kentucky (3/23-25)... Went 6-for-12 with three RBI, three runs scored, and five walks in four-game conference series at Stony Brook (4/20-22)... Drove in four runs and scored twice in 2-for-3 outing against Marist on May 1... Knocked in two runs vs. Stony Brook in opening game of America East postseason tournament... Went 3-for-5, including a walk-off single that plated the winning run, in the second round of A-East tournament against Binghamton... Named to America East all-championship team... Went 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored against Creighton in the NCAA tournament. 2006: In his first full season with the Great Danes, he was third on the team in batting average (.329), fourth in RBI (28) and tied for the team lead with three triples... Started at second base and shortstop... Appeared in 43 of the squad’s 52 games... 2-for-4 with a double and three RBI in UAlbany’s 7-0 win over Binghamton (5/19)... Went 3-for-5 with a school-record three triples and five RBI in Great Danes’ 17-5 victory over Yale (3/26). 2005: Redshirted after appearing in two games... Hitless in four at bats. High School: Earned all-league, all-county and all-section honors in junior and senior seasons... Selected team MVP senior year. Personal: Majoring in sociology with a minor in criminal justice... Born January 3, 1986... Son of John and Adriana Donovan.