Ohio State Career: Serving as team captain as a senior ... 2008 USILA Honorable Mention All-American ... first team All-GWLL the past two seasons ... 2007 and ’08 Team Offensive MVP ... 2006 GWLL Newcomer of the Year and co-winner of team’s Outstanding Freshman award ... GWLL’s leading returning scorer after ranking second in conference with 75 points a year ago ... enters senior season with 166 career points, ranking third in program history ... seventh in program history with 73 career assists and just outside the Top 10 with 93 career goals ... has started each game of his Buckeye career and has at least one point in all but one outing ... two-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete and an Academic All-Big Ten choice.
2008 (Junior season): USILA honorable mention All-American and first team All-GWLL ... started all 17 games ... team-best 35 assists and ranked second with 75 points and 40 goals ... ended year fifth in the NCAA in points per game (4.41), fourth in assists per game (2.06) and 18th in goals per game (2.35) ... ranked first in the GWLL in assists per game, second in points per game and fourth in goals per outing ... points were seventh-best single-season performance in program history, with goals ninth and assists fourth ... career-best nine goals and 12 points vs. Denver April 19; points tied for NCAA single-game high during the season, goals ranked second ... career-best eight assists and nine points at Quinnipiac March 29; assists were single-game high in the NCAA during the year ... also had an eight-point game, with five goals and three assists, vs. Denver in GWLL semis May 2 ... 37-game scoring streak ended vs. North Carolina April 12, marking first game he was held scoreless as a Buckeye (responded with12-point game vs. Pioneers) ... GWLL Player of the Week April 2 after nine-point game vs. Quinnipiac and April 23 after 12 points vs. Denver ... back-to-back six-point games vs. Bellarmine (4g, 2a) April 2 and Air Force (3g, 3a) April 6 ... five points, including three assists, at Villanova March 18.
2007 (Sophomore season): Started all 14 games and led team and GWLL with 50 points, earning Team Offensive MVP honors ... first team all-conference choice ... team-best 29 goals and was second with 21 assists ... first in GWLL in points per game (3.57), third in goals per game (2.07) and fifth in assists per outing (1.5) ... 12th nationally in points per game, 21st in assists per game and 25th in goals per contest ... first 50-point season for a Buckeye since 2003 ... GWLL Player of the Week after eight-point performance in win vs. Quinnipiac March 31; had career-best five assists against the Bobcats, tying for 10th in NCAA during the season for single-game assists ... eight-point game tied for seventh-best single game performance in the NCAA ... then-career-high five goals vs. Army, added an assist for six points ... five-point game, with two goals and three assists, at Towson March 20 ... four goals vs. North Carolina Feb. 17 ... four four-point games (3g,1a vs. Robert Morris Feb. 10; 4g vs. UNC Feb. 17; 1g, 3a vs. Wagner Feb. 23 and Bellarmine April 7) ... also had a hat trick vs. Bucknell March 2 ... held to one assist at Denver April 22 and one goal at Notre Dame April 28; first time he was held to one point in back-to-back games in his career ... five man-up goals were second on squad ... scored gamewinner vs. Bellarmine ... team-high 79 shots, a shooting percentage of 36.7 percent ... 23 groundballs, including four at Denver ... an Ohio State Scholar-Athlete and Academic All-Big Ten choice.
2006 (Freshman season): Started all 13 games as a true freshman ... ended the season tied for the team lead with 41 points ... named GWLL Newcomer of the Year ... shared team’s Outstanding Freshman award ... ranked second with 24 goals and 17 assists ... third (tied) in the GWLL in points per game (3.15), was fourth in assists per game (1.31), tied for fifth in goals per game (1.85) and ranked eighth in shots per game (5.46) ...ranked in the Top 25 nationally in points per game ... had multiple points in the last 12 games of the year ... scored a goal in all but two games ... first career goal came in the first game of the season against North Carolina Feb. 18 ... career-best three goals and five points against both Marist March 13 and Butler April 14 ... career-high four assists vs. Robert Morris April 8 ... also had a hat trick at Quinnipiac March 18 ... had six two-goal games (Navy, Hobart, Penn State, Brown, Denver and Air Force) ... three goals came on man-up chances ... ended the season with 22 groundballs ... earned Ohio State Scholar-Athlete honors.
Western Reserve Academy (Ohio): First team All-Midwest selection in 2005 ... team’s leading scorer and served as captain in 2005, also earned Most Valuable Player honors ... leading scorer and Most Valuable Player in British Columbia in 2003; had 49 goals and 34 assists for 97 points in 16 games, averaging 5.87 points a game ... played for the Port Coquitlam Saints Junior A team in the BCJA in 2005 and the Port Coquitlam Buckeroos in the PIJHL in 2003 ... won provincials with the Saints in 2003 ... 2004 all-star team captain of the B.C. Summer Games team that won gold ... also played junior hockey.
Personal: Son of Don and Cynthia ... has a brother, Austin ... hobbies include golf, weight lifting and playing poker ... Favorites: movie – The Rock; television show – Jeopardy; actor – Denzel Washington; actress – Jessica Simpson; professional team – Vancouver Canucks; athlete – Jason Bloom; music – country and rock; musical group – Metallica.
Year GP G A P Shots GB
2006 13 24 17 41 71 22
2007 14 29 21 50 79 23
2008 17 40 35 75 106 18
Total 44 93 73 166 256 63
Career Game Highs
Goals: 9 April 19, 2008 vs. Denver
5 April 27, 2008 vs. Notre Dame
5 May 6, 2007 vs. Army
Assists: 8 March 29, 2008 at Quinnipiac
5 March 31, 2007 vs. Quinnipiac
Points: 12 April 19, 2008 vs. Denver
9 March 29, 2008 at Quinnipiac
8 March 31, 2007 vs. Quinnipiac
Shots: 12 April 19, 2008 vs. Denver
GBs: 4 April 22, 2007 at Denver