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A 2003 Baseball America preseason first-team All-America selection in voting conducted by major league scouting directors...Returning two-year starter in center field who provides an offensive and defensive spark.…Was a second team preseason All-America selection by Baseball America in 2002...Talented outfielder who moved into the starting lineup in his first season at SDSU...Played mainly in center field although he saw some action in left...Played last summer for the Brewster Whitecaps in the Cape Cod where he was named to the league’s all-star team…Hit .291 (11th in the league) with 20 runs scored, five doubles, a triple, 14 runs batted in…Also walked 19 time for an on-base percentage of .364…His 48 hits was third-most in the league…Was invited to tryout camp for the USA National Team in June 2001. SDSU 2002: One of only two players to appear in every game for the Aztecs, starting 65 times in center field and coming off the bench in the other contest…Led the team with 58 runs scored and 25 stolen bases…His total of 35 walks was second-best on the squad…Team-high nine sacrifice bunts which ranks 10th on the SDSU single-season record list…Put together an 11-game hitting streak early in the year during which he batted .364 (16-for-44) with 13 runs scored, five runs batted in and seven stolen bases…Named to the All-MWC Tournament team after going 11-for-22 (.500) with two doubles and seven runs scored…Ended the season with a six-game hitting streak and finished the year by hitting safely in 14 of the Aztecs’ final 15 contests…Twice during the year had streaks of four consecutive games in which he stole at least one base…Recorded 28 multiple-hit games, tying for most on the squad…Season-best three hits in a game on six occasions…Had seven multiple RBI contests…Scored two or more runs in a game 17 times with a season high of three at University of San Diego…Hit .333 in conference action with 18 RBI and a .432 on-base percentage…Hit his first career home run at New Mexico on May 12. SDSU 2001: Emerged as one of the top freshmen in the Mountain West Conference and was named an honorable mention Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball...MWC all-academic team selection...Earned MWC player of the week honors after going 8-for-14 with six runs scored at the Hormel Foods Baseball Classic in Minneapolis, Minn., where he took home the Easton Silver Slugger award as the player with the highest batting average during the Classic...One of two Aztecs named to the all-tournament team at that event...Also named to the all-tourney team at the San Diego Classic when he hit .458 (11-for-24) with three doubles and six runs scored...Led the conference in runs scored and ranked among the conference leaders in hits, stolen bases and batting average before being sidelined by a broken hand that he suffered against UCLA on April 10...Missed one month of action, returning to the lineup on May 11...Despite missing a month of action, still finished third in steals, seventh in triples and sac bunts, and ninth in runs scored in the final MWC stats...Hit .439 with runners in scoring position...Had two separate nine-game hitting streaks during the season, at one point recording at least one hit in 18-of-19 games from Feb. 9-March 17... Recorded three hits in a single game on six occasions...Fell a home run short of hitting for the cycle against Air Force in Colorado Springs on April 7...Went 3-for-5 in that contest with a double, a triple, two walks, three runs batted in and a season-high four runs scored...Named SDSU's top defensive player after fielding .961 in the outfield. High School: Two-year varsity letterwinner at Poway High School, where he played for Bob Parry...Earned all-Palomar League first-team recognition as well as all-CIF second team honors in 2000...Hit .440 during his senior year with 23 stolen bases...Second-team all-league and honorable mention all-CIF in 1999...As a junior, batted .400 with 21 runs batted in and eight stolen bases...Named to the all-USA team...Played three years of varsity basketball for the Titans... Competed for the North team in the annual San Diego County All-Star game after his senior season, scoring 14 points including four three-pointers...Teammate of current Aztec Rielly Embrey. Personal: Anthony Keith Gwynn was born on Oct. 4, 1982, in Long Beach, Calif...Son of Tony and Alicia Gwynn...Lists favorite athlete as Deion Sanders...His father, Tony, and his uncle, Chris, both played at San Diego State...Hobbies include listening to music...Undeclared major at San Diego State
Gwynn’s SDSU Career Hitting Statistics Year G-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB-A AVG 2001 43-43 179 48 57 8 4 0 23 22 18 19-23 .318 2002 66-65 248 58 84 9 4 1 36 35 41 25-35 .339 Totals 109-108 427 106 141 17 8 1 59 57 59 44-58 .330 |
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