Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Athletics

 
FOOTBALL: 1998: Team finished 7-2 overall and won the UCAA Championship … Played all nine games as a defensive back … Recorded 26 tackles, including 19 solo … Led the team with seven interceptions … Recovered one fumble and broke up four passes … Second in Upstate New York in interceptions … All-UCAA First Team … UCAA Rookie of the Week twice … 1999: Did not play due to religious mission … 2000: Did not play due to religious mission … 2001: Team finished 8-1 overall, including an appearance in the second round of the NCAA Playoffs (first-ever in school history), and won the UCAA Championship … Team earned top seed in NCAA Playoff Tournament … Ran 67 times for 214 yards and four touchdowns … Caught 27 passes for 250 yards and a touchdown … Completed 10 of 13 passes for 136 yards and a touchdown … Averaged 3.2 yards per carry and 9.3 yards per reception … Collected 51.6 all-purpose and 38.9 yards of total offense per game … Had at least one carry and one reception in every game … Led the team in rushing in last three games … UCAA All-Academic … 2002: Captain … Started all ten games … Team finished 8-2 overall, including a victory in ECAC Championship Game … Caught team-high 66 passes for team-best 968 yards, including 72-yard long, and five touchdowns … Led the team with 96.8 receiving yards per game … Led team in receptions in five games, receiving yards in four contests and rushing yards in two … Caught at least three passes in every game … Had five-or-more receptions in eight games … Recorded over 100 receiving yards in five games, including four in a five-game stretch (9/28 to 11/2) … Caught one touchdown in five different games … Ran 47 times for 262 yards, including a long of 65 yards, and a team-high five touchdowns … Second on the team with 5.6 yards per carry … Averaged 26.2 rushing yards per game … Completed all three passing attempts for 25 yards, including a long of 11 yards, and a touchdown … Punted once for 32 yards … Led the team in all-purpose yards, averaging 123.0 yards per game … Second on team in scoring with 64 points, including ten touchdowns and two point-after-touchdowns … Fourth on team in total offense with 28.7 yards Upstate New York in receptions per game and receiving yards per game and seventh in all-purpose yards per game and scoring … Twenty-sixth in the nation in receiving yards per game and 29th in reception per game … UCAA All-Academic … All-UCAA Second Team … Verizon College Division District 1 All-Academic First Team … Football Gazette All-East Third Team … Verizon College Division National Academic All-America First Team … UCAA Offensive Player of the Week … ECAC Northwestern Weekly Honor Roll … 2003: Captain … Team set school record for wins in a season (11-2) … Team advanced to NCAA National Semi-Finals … Team won ECAC Team of the Year Award … Team won Division III Lambert Trophy … Team ranked fifth in final D3Football.com Top 25 Poll … Team ranked sixth in final Don Dansen’s National Weekly Football Gazette Top 40 … Team ranked ninth in final AFCA Coaches’ Poll … Team’s top returning receiver and scorer … Caught a team high 109 receptions for 1274 yards, including a long of 55 yards, and 15 touchdowns … Second on the team in scoring with 90 points … Ran 15 times for 63 yards, including a long of 14 yards … Completed 4 of 5 pass attempts for 76 yards, including a long of 31 yards … Ranked second in the nation in receptions per game averaging 9.1 … Ranked tenth in the nation in receiving yards per game with 106.2 … D3Football.com National Wide Receiver of the Week once … All-UCAA First Team … All-ECAC Northwest First Team … All-East Region First Team … National Football Gazette All-East First Team … D3Football.com National All-American Second Team … National Football Gazette National All-American Third Team … CoSIDA National All-American Honorable Mention … UCAA All-Academic … Verizon Academic All-District 1 First Team … National Verizon Academic All-America First Team … National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame National Scholar-Athlete … One of 15 football student athletes selected at all three NCAA levels … Team Offensive Most Valuable Player … Team J&J Tough Guy Award …  Finished ranked seventy-second in the nation in scoring (7.5 points per game) … OTHER: Ranked second and third in school for most receptions in a game … Holds school record for most receptions in a season, touchdown receptions in a season, and most yards gained in a season … Graduated as school record holder in career receptions and most career yards gained.

Receiving						Rushing
Year	Catches	Yards	Average	TD's	Long.	No.	Yards	Average	TD's	Longest Run
1998*	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	6.0	0	7
2001	27	250	9.3	1	25	67	214	3.2	4	21
2002	66	968	14.7	5	72	47	262	5.6	5	65
2003	109	1274	11.7	15	55	15	63	4.2	0	14
CAREER	202	2492	12.3	21	72	131	551	4.2	9	65

 
Defensive* Played Defensive Back during Freshman Year

Year	Tackles	Assists	Hits	Interceptions	Blocks
1998*	19	7	26	7	0

BASEBALL: 1999: Team finished 26-12, winning the UCAA regular season title, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the eighth straight season and the ninth in the past ten years … Played majority of season on junior varsity … Finished season on varsity, starting in the outfield during the NCAA New York Regional Tournament …2000: Did not play due to religious mission … 2001: Did not play due to religious mission … 2002: Team finished 33-11 to set the school-record for wins in a season, won the UCAA regular season title, advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the 11th straight season and the 12th in the past 13 years and participated in the NCAA National Championship Tournament … Started 41 of 42 games … Led team in stolen bases (11) and attempts (14) … Second on team in home runs (6), triples (3), doubles (10), hits (59), and runs scored (42) … Had a .349 average and .550 slugging percentage in a school record 169 at bats … UCAA All-Academic Team … Academic All-District 1 First Team … All-UCAA First Team … NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team … All-ECAC Second Team … All-East Region Second Team … Team won NCAA Regional Tournament … Team ranked fifth in the nation in the final national poll … 2003: Team finished 26-15, winning the UCAA regular season title as well as the inaugural UCAA Post-Season Tournament, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the 12th straight season and 13th in the past 14 years … Team finished ranked 30th in the entire country … Started all 41 games … Batted .355 (49 for 138) … Had eight doubles, two triples and three home runs … Tallied 11 stolen bases and 26 RBIs … All-UCAA Second Team … All-East Region Third Team … UCAA All-Academic … 2004: Team went 27-17 winning the UCAA regular season title and qualified for NCAA Tournament for 13th straight season, which at the time was the longest current streak in all of Division III … Started in all 44 games … Batted .348 in 161 at bats with a .516 slugging percentage … First on the team in runs (48), stolen bases (17), and stolen base attempts (20) … Posted 56 hits, 13 doubles, one triple, four home runs, and 26 RBIs … UCAA co-Performer of the Week once … All-UCAA Second Team … District 1 College Division Baseball All-Academic First Team … Livingston Houston Award … All-New York Region First Team … OTHER: Graduated as NCAA record holder in single game at bats ... Graduated with school record for single game hits and single season at bats.

	AVG.	GP	GS	AB	R	H	RBI	2B	3B	HR	SLG	BB	SO	SB	SBA	FLD	OB%	HBP
1999	0.321	14	7	28	8	9	3	2	0	0	0.323	6	9	4	5	0.800	0.456	1
2002	0.349	42	41	169	42	59	39	10	3	6	0.550	11	16	11	14	0.962	0.397	3
2003	0.355	41	41	138	34	49	26	8	2	3	0.507	23	14	11	13	0.928	0.488	1
2004	0.348	44	44	161	48	56	26	13	1	4	0.516	12	5	17	20	0.923	0.415	10
CAREER	0.349	141	133	496	132	173	94	33	6	13	0.518	52	44	43	52	0.994	0.421	15

OTHER: Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) … Company Commander of Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps Unit … Studied Naval Science and was commissioned an Officer in the United States Navy upon graduation … Attended 2002 Naval Leadership Conference: Managing in a Time of Crisis, U.S. Naval Academy … Finished second in class of 34 in United States Navy Mini-BUD/s: Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL School in summer 2003, RPI Academic Excellence Award … FedEx Corp and Archer Center of Rensselaer Student Leader … Epsilon Delta Sigma Management Honor Society … Navy ROTC Company Commander Member of Troy’s Disaster Relief Squad … Spent two years in Iceland as a missionary.