Garrick Evans Class: Senior Hometown: Burke, Va. High School: Lake Braddock Secondary Last College: Clemson Height / Weight: 6-3 / 210 Position: OF Birthdate: 12/02/1982 Experience: TR B-T: R-R

Transfer from Clemson who possesses great speed and good "pop" at the plate, especially to the opposite field...Played most of his career in the infield (shortstop), but was moved to the outfield last season for the Tigers ... Played for Spartanburg in the Coastal Plain League during summer 2003... Selected in the 23rd round of the 2001 draft by Toronto...Member of the Northern Virginia Commonwealth Team and the Northern Virginia Barnstormers Showcase Team in 2000...The Barnstormers won the National Baseball Federation World Series...As a youngster, played for the Guam Senior Little League All-Stars team that went to the Senior Little League World Series in 1997 and 1998.

Clemson 2004: Appeared in 49 games (starting 37) for team that advanced to the NCAA Regional at Georgia...Batted .308 overall with 13 doubles, two home runs...Had 29 runs scored and 13 runs batted in...Stole 5-of-7 bases...Hit .217 in 18 Atlantic Coast Conference contests...Tigers finished fourth in the ACC and were runners-up at the NCAA Regional...His home runs came at South Carolina and at Georgia Tech...In that game at South Carolina, went 3-for-4 with three runs and five runs batted in...Had three hits in a game on four other occasions...At the Regional, appeared in four games, hitting .400 (4-for-10) with five runs scored...Season-best six-game hitting streak in mid-March when he went 10-for-24 (.417) with seven runs and three RBI in games against Auburn, Coastal Carolina and Texas Tech.

Clemson 2003: Came on late in the season to be the Tigers' leadoff batter...Hit .400 (16-for-40) with six doubles, a triple, homer, and nine RBIs in his last 10 games to raise his season average to .311...Had 11 doubles and a team-high eight stolen bases in just 132 at bats...Hit .333 against ACC teams...Batted .357 when he came off the bench...Hit his first career home run against Charleston Southern on Feb. 26; he did so as the first batter of the game for Clemson...Went 6-for-8 with four doubles, a triple, four runs scored, and three walks in two games as the leadoff batter against Wake Forest to earn ACC Player-of-the-Week honors...Went 2-for-6 with a double and two runs scored against Princeton in the Auburn Regional on May 31.

Clemson 2002: Played at third base, shortstop, and second base, mostly as a late-inning substitution...Started three games, two at second base and one as the designated hitter...Had two doubles, a triple, and nine RBIs to go along with two steals...Six of his nine RBIs came with two outs...Got his first career hit, a three-run double, against UNC Asheville on Mar. 19...Hit a two-run double off the bench against Coastal Carolina on Mar. 26...Had two hits and one RBI off the bench against Furman on Apr. 23...Hit a pinch-hit, two-run triple at Virginia on May 11.

High School: Lived on Guam during his first year of high school, then played final three years of prep baseball at Lake Braddock High School in Burke, Va...Coached there by Dan Greio...Led high school team in RBIs and American Legion team in home runs in 1999...As a senior at Lake Braddock HS in 2000, was named first-team All-Patriot District, first-team All-Northern Region, first-team All-Times, first-team All-Journal, and Washington Post Athlete-of-the-Week...Batted .481 with six home runs, 12 RBI, 22 runs scored and 16 stolen bases plus a .642 on-base percentage...Team was regular-season champions as well as with Patriot District champions that season... Was named second-team All-Patriot District and first-team American Legion All-Star in 1999...Also lettered three years in football and two years in basketball.

Personal: Garrick Kingsley Evans was born on Dec. 2, 1982, in Chicago...Son of Faye and C.J. Evans...Second cousin of Detroit Tiger outfielder Rondell White...Lived all over the world as a youth including Naples, Stuttgart, and Guam...Father was working in the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 hit the building on 9/11; his father was working on the opposite side of the Pentagon from where it was hit and was not injured...Majoring in public administration.