Wofford College Athletics

Missed fall practice while spending the semester abroad . . . Has been a consistent hitter who is also steady defensively . . . Has been a part-time pitcher in his first two years but is not slated to pitch in 2007 . . . Enters his junior season tied for 35th in school history with 111 career hits . . . Local player who joined the Terriers from the highly-successful Riverside High School program . . . Outstanding defensively . . . Is very consistent with his fielding and throwing . . . Showed the potential to be a power threat at the plate . . . Spent the summer playing for the Spartanburg Crickets in the Southern Collegiate Baseball League where he hit .302 in 32 games . . . Named to the 2004-05 and 2005-06 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll . . . Earned a Southern Conference Commissioner’s Medal in 2006 for maintaining a grade point average in excess of 3.5 . . . 2006: Set Wofford’s school record with 218 at bats as a sophomore . . . Tied the school record by playing in all 57 games . . . Was the only Terrier to start every game in 2006 . . . Second on the team with 62 hits . . . Academic All-Southern Conference selection . . . Was three-for-four with a ninth inning single in a 5-4 win over The Citadel (April 28) . . . Collected four hits in a 25-15 win over Davidson (March 12) . . . Hit a two-run homer in the opening day 7-4 win over Liberty . . . Had a 13-game hitting streak, the longest by a Terriers in 2006 . . . Was second on the team with 15 multiple hit games . . . Versatile infielder who started 27 games at first base, 26 at third base, three at DH and one at second . . . Hit .321 in SoCon games . . . Also saw action on the mound . . . Made his first career start vs. High Point (Feb. 15) . . . Was six-for-12 in a three-game series vs. The Citadel . . . Led the squad with six sacrifice bunts 2005: Starting third baseman in the first 23 games of the season before moving across the infield and starting the final 24 games at first base . . . Was second on the squad with 49 base hits . . . Put together Wofford’s second-longest hitting streak of the year at eight games . . . Led the team with 13 multiple hit games including a four-for-five effort with two doubles and three RBIs against Western Kentucky (March 13) . . . Went five-for-12 with five RBIs and a homer in a three-game sweep of Georgia Southern (April 29-May 2) . . . Drove in three runs by going three-for-five with a homer in the season finale against Western Carolina . . . Went two-for-five with an RBI against second-ranked South Carolina (March 15) . . . High School: A 2004 graduate of Riverside High where he helped the team to a 60-3 record his final two years . . . Selected to the North-South All-Star Game . . . Earned all-state honors as he hit .370 and played errorless ball as a senior for his nationally-ranked Riverside team . . . Played first, second and third . . . Also posted a 0.91 ERA on the mound . . . A three-year letterman . . . Received Riverside’s Most Outstanding Defensive Player award as a junior and team MVP as a senior as Riverside finished in the top 10 in the national polls. . . Starter on the South Carolina District I Big League World Series Tournament teams in 2003 and ‘04 . . . The squad won back-to-back world championships. . . Personal: Son of Roger and Elizabeth Wood . . . Born Jan. 24, 1986.