3  Carlo Cota Class: Senior Hometown: Calexico, Calif. High School: Calexico Height / Weight: 5-10 / 180 Position: Second Base Birthdate: 09/18/1980 Experience: 3V

Excellent hitter who can play either shortstop or second base...Became SDSU’s regular second baseman last season as a junior...Started 59 of SDSU’s 60 games, missing one contest due to injury...Honored for both athletic and academic excellence as a prep athlete...Played last summer for Lake Havasu in the Arizona Collegiate League.

2001: Ranked eighth in the MWC with a .346 batting average...Led the MWC in sacrifice flies (8), was third in hits (82), and ninth in RBIs (46)...A second-team all-conference selection...Batting average never dropped below .333 at any point of the season...Named the Aztecs’ top offensive player...Second on the team with 14 two-out RBIs...Hit .373 (31-for-83) when batting with two out...Earned Mountain West Conference player of the week honors after recording four hits in 10 at-bats, driving in two runs, banging out a double and scoring a run in three games against UC Riverside, The Citadel and Oklahoma State in the opening week of the season...Suffered a dislocated finger in a play at the plate vs. New Mexico on March 25...Missed the following game (vs. USC), but came back and started the remainder of the year...Blasted a home run on April 10 against UCLA at Tony Gwynn Stadium...Finished the season with 25 multiple-hit games, including a 4-for-5 effort against UNLV on April 14...Drove in a career-high four runs in a game against Houston on Feb. 10 in which he went 3-for-5 and hit a double...Knocked in 16 runs during February (13 games)...Enjoyed a pair of nine-game hitting streaks (March 18 - April 1 and April 17 - May 1)...Scored a run in eight straight games from March 18-31...His eight sacrifice flies were the second-most ever in a season by an Aztec...Ended the year by going 6-for-16 (.375) over SDSU’s final four games.

2000: Moved into the lineup in the Brigham Young series late in the season...Hit the first home run of his collegiate career in SDSU’s 9-2 win over BYU in Provo...Blasted a two-run home run in the Aztecs’ 16-6 defeat of UNLV on May 13...Got a hit in 12 of the 16 games in which he played....Put together a fielding percentage of .969, committing only two errors at second base...Hit .375 in four games at the Mountain West Conference Tournament including a 3-for-5 performance in the title game vs. Air Force.

1999: Appeared in 16 games as a freshman, all at second base...Hit .368 in his first collegiate season...Best game was a 3-for-5 day with three runs scored against UCLA in the San Diego Classic...Also had multiple hit outings in games against Oklahoma State, Wichita State and Southwest Texas.

High School: Played three seasons of varsity baseball at Calexico High School...Coached there by Sergio Rubio...Earned all-Imperial Valley League honors all three years...Career batting average of .460...Named the league’s Most Valuable Player after his sophomore and junior seasons...Three-year all-league selection as a guard for the Bulldog basketball squad...Won the U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award... Received U.S. Army Reserve Scholar-Athlete Award and Coca Cola Golden Boy Award...Chosen school’s Academic Athlete of the Year for 1998.

Personal: Carlo Isaiah Cota was born Sept. 18, 1970, in San Diego...Son of Arnold and Christina Cota...Hobbies include golf and fishing...Lists his favorite athlete as Michael Jordan...Majoring in international business at SDSU.

Cota’s SDSU Career Statistics
Year    G-GS   AB    R    H  2B  3B  HR  RBI  BB  SO  SB-A    AVG
1999   16-9    38    8   14   0   0   0    1   2   7   0-1   .368
2000   16-12   52   14   16   1   0   2   11   7   9   0-0   .308
2001   59-59  237   37   82  13   2   1   46  20  29   8-16  .346
Totals 91-80  327   59  112  14   2   3   58  29  45   8-17  .343