Biography
Honors and Awards
•First-team All-Summit (2013)
•Academic All-Summit (2013)
•Summit League Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence (2013)
•MIAA Academic Honor Roll (2010-11)
As a Senior (2013)
Earned first-team All-Summit League and Academic All-Summit honors…Batted a Summit League-leading .391 with six doubles, two triples, a home run, 26 runs scored and 13 RBI…Played in 39 games, starting 32…Totaled 13 multi-hit performances…Held the longest hitting streak of any individual Maverick in 2013, with a 16-game stretch that was the seventh-longest of any player in the Bob Herold era…Hit a perfect 4-for-4 with a double, two RBI and two runs against South Dakota State (May 17), helping Omaha to its first Division I conference championship in the win…Capped his career with a 3-for-4 effort with two runs scored and three more driven in, as well as his first home run of the season against SDSU (May 18)…Made seven appearances on the mound, including six starts, with 21 strikeouts…Picked up the win against Oakland (April 7), allowing three runs over a season-long 5.0 innings…Struck out a season-high five batters against North Dakota (March 8)…Named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.
As a Senior (2012)
Appeared in 15 games and made three starts on the mound before sustaining a season-ending injury on March 13…Batted .244 for the year, totaling three doubles, a home run, 10 runs scored and three RBI…Posted a record of 1-2 with a 5.62 ERA over 16.0 innings of work…Put up 10 strikeouts for the year and held his opponents to a .242 batting average…Made his first pitching start of the year at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, going 4.2 innings and surrendering five earned runs on five hits with a pair of Ks…Went 2-for-4 with a double at Washington State (Feb. 24)…Followed with a 2-for-3 effort against the Cougars (Feb. 26)…Had a season-long six-inning outing at WSU (Feb. 27), allowing four runs on seven hits with three strikeouts…Finished a career-best 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles and a run scored at Northern Colorado (March 10)…Also limited the Bears to one run on three hits in 5.1 innings, fanning a career-high-tying five batters…Drove in two runs and scored twice himself against BYU (March 12).
As a Junior (2011)
Made 14 appearances on the mound, including six starts...Owned a record of 5-3 with two saves and a 3.57 ERA...Amassed 29 strikeouts to 12 walks over 45.1 innings of work, holding his opponents to a .286 batting average…Played his first game as a Maverick against Augustana (Feb. 27), earning the save and striking out three over three innings of relief work…Made his first start at Pittsburg State (March 12), tossing 3.2 innings and capturing the win…Took the win against Lincoln (March 28), going four innings and holding the Blue Tigers scoreless for the victory…Fanned a career-high five batters in six innings to earn the 4-2 win against Missouri Southern (April 17)…Did not allow a walk in five straight appearances from April 17 to April 30…Threw a complete-game nine-inning win against Emporia State in the MIAA Tournament (May 7), striking out three in the 9-2 win to advance to the championship game…Named to the 2010-11 MIAA Academic Honor Roll.
Iowa Central CC
Began his career playing two years at Iowa Central CC...Pitched for the Tritons both his freshman and sophomore seasons...Went 6-0 on the mound in his second year, helping his team to a fourth-place finish in the World Series... Named an academic All-American and academic all-conference.
Bellevue East High School
Three-year letterwinner in baseball.
Personal
Born May 6, 1990 to Beth Buckley in Ventura, Calif....Hobbies include friends, family, driving, fishing, swimming, wakeboarding, working out and playing baseball...Graduated with his bachelor’s degree in criminology and criminal justice in May 2013.
