2013 Baseball Roster
Roster
Brad Collins
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 205
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Weddington, N.C.
- High School:
- Weddington HS
2012 at Gardner-Webb: Played in 58 games andmade 56 starts, splitting time mainly between third base and firstbase … Enjoyed a career year at the plate … Batted.279 with a career-best five home runs … Ranked fourth onthe team with 29 RBI … Ranked second on the team in homeruns and slugging percentage (.467) … Had a .342 on basepercentage … Scored 31 runs and finished second on the teamwith 14 doubles … Legged out a career-best four triples totie for the team lead in that category … Had 15 games withat least two hits … Went 3-for-4 with a season-best five RBIto lift Gardner-Webb to a win at No. 4 North Carolina (3/14)… Had a home run, double and triple in that game to finish asingle shy of the cycle … Went 2-for-4 with a home run andthree RBI in a win over Western Carolina (4/17) … Hit fourof his five home runs after April 1 … Went 2-for-3 with atriple and home run vs. North Carolina A&T (4/25) …Drove in a pair and scored three runs in that game … Had astretch of four games in a row with two hits in mid-May …Had an 11-game hit streak in that stretched from mid-April untilearly May.
2011 at Gardner-Webb: Saw action in 46 games... Made 32 starts, primarily at third base ... Batted .262 withthree home runs, five doubles and 20 RBI ... Scored 13 runs ...Posted a .309 on base percentage ... Tied for the team lead withthree sacrifice bunts ... Half of RBI came with two outs ... Had athree-run home run to spark an early lead in the Big SouthTournament win over Radford (5/26) ... Homered during the regularseason vs. Presbyterian (4/23) and Liberty (5/14), both two-runshots ... Had four multi-RBI games and seven multi-hit games ...Went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI vs. USC Upstate(3/2) ... Went 3-for-5 with an RBI at USC Upstate (4/6) just over amonth later ... Went 2-for-4 with a two-run double at The Citadel(2/18).
2010 at Gardner-Webb: Saw action in 25 games andmade seven starts ... Batted .214 with four doubles, one home runand six RBI ... Went 2-for-3 with an RBI double at Liberty (5/1)... Was 1-for-4 with a two-run home run at Charleston Southern(4/24) ... Made four starts at third base, two starts at first baseand one start at designated hitter.
High School: Teamed with classmate DannyYelverton at Weddington (N.C.) High under former Gardner-Webbstandout Travis Poole ... Earned All-Southwest Conference 4A honorsas a senior ... Named team MVP ... Batted .370 with seven home runsin 2009 ... Earned All-Union County and All-Piedmont honors as asenior ... Batted .389 with five home runs as a junior.
