University of Albany

2008: Started 42 games in center field for the Great Danes... Hit .293 with 28 RBI... Knocked out 44 hits, including four doubles and seven home runs... Scored 24 runs and had two stolen bases... Drew 23 walks... Recorded three hits, scoring one run and driving in two more against Furman (3/9)... Tallied multiple hits in 11 games and multiple RBI in seven contests... Hit home runs in back-to-back games against UMBC (5/3 and 5/4). 2007: Played in 42 games as a sophomore, making 40 starts... Named to America East Conference first team... Batted .267 with four home runs and 14 RBI... Had 10 doubles, two triples, six stolen bases and 26 runs scored... Recorded a .440 slugging percentage, third-highest on the team... Registered 11 games with at least two hits and three games with two RBI... Tallied two five-game hitting streaks, from Feb. 20 to Feb. 24 and April 20 to April 27... Went 3-for-4 with a double and a run scored against Stony Brook on April 21... Had a 4-for-4 performance with two doubles, a home run, two RBI and two runs scored against Maine on April 28... Homered, drove in two and scored twice in a 2-for-5 performance against Maine on April 29... Went 8-for-16 with two doubles, two RBI and four runs scored in four-game series at Hartford on May 4-6... Hit 6-for-16 with a double, triple, two RBI and seven runs scored in four-game set against UMBC on May 11-13... Scored a run against Creighton in NCAA Tournament. 2006: Appeared in 34 games, starting in 21 of them and hitting .205... Drove in 11 runs and stole five bases... Did not commit an error the entire season... Went 3-for-4 in 8-3 victory over UNC Greensboro (3/18)... 4-for-6 with five RBI in 14-13 victory over VMI (3/5). High School: Batted .400 with seven home runs as a junior... Three-year letterwinner at Toms River North... Earned All-Ocean County, all-conference, all-division and All-Shore honors as a sophomore, junior and senior. Personal: Two-time All-Northeast Conference honoree in football... Earned second-team honors in 2007 and first-team accolades in 2008... Great Danes went undefeated in league play to win their second consecutive Northeast Conference championship last fall... Was fourth on the team as a senior with 59 tackles... Majoring in business administration... Born on Jan. 16, 1987... Son of David and Laura West.