Diamond Devils Accomplishments

Ø         Three National Championships…

   Ø         256 Division I players…

   Ø         29 players drafted…

   Ø         16 players are presently in the Minor Leagues…

   Ø         Three 1^st Rounders-Drew Meyer, Matt Campbell, Daniel Bard…

   Ø         One Major Leaguer-Drew Meyer…

   Ø         One Cape Cod League Player of the Year-Justin Smoak…

   Ø         24 Diamond Devil alumni have participated in the Cape Cod League…

   Ø         30 Diamond Devil alumni participated in an NCAA Regional in 2006…

   Ø         21 Diamond Devil alumni participated in an NCAA Super-Regional in 2006…

   Ø         12 Diamond Devil alumni participated in the 2006 College World Series…

   Ø         23 Diamond Devil alumni have played in the College World Series…

   Ø         30 Diamond Devil alumni have played in the Junior College World Series…

   Ø         Former Diamond Devil players Russell Triplett (Clemson) and Tim Bright (Furman) are now coaching at the Division I level. Former Diamond Devil coaches Monte Lee is the hitting coach at South Carolina and Ryan Mau is the pitching coach at VMI…

   Ø         Former Diamond Devil, and current coach, David Marchbanks was the SEC Pitcher of the Year in 2004…

   Ø         Former Diamond Devil, USC signee and six-year minor league veteran Charlie Lisk is on staff as a coach…

   Ø         Former Diamond Devil right-hander Aaron Rawl started the National Championship game for South Carolina versus Texas in 2002 as a freshman…

   Ø         Former Diamond Devil right-hander Daniel Bard started the National Championship game for North Carolina versus Oregon State in 2006…

   Ø         Three former Diamond Devils were among the Top 10 prospects in the Cape Cod League (Justin Smoak, Matt Wieters, Reese Havens)

   Ø         Two former Diamond Devils were in the NCAA’s Top 3 in ERA last year (Jonathan Hovis-North Carolina-1^st and Nick Chigges-College of Charleston-3^rd)

   Ø         Former Diamond Devil Brett Anderson is the College of Charleston’s career homerun leader…

   Ø         A Diamond Devil team has advanced to the championship round of every Perfect Game national event in the past 6 years…

   Ø         Former Diamond Devil Matt Weiters (Georgia Tech) was named ACC Player of the Year in 2006…

   Ø         Former Diamond Devil Matt Weiters (Georgia Tech) is projected as the #2 pick in the 2007 draft by Baseball America…

   Ø         Former Diamond Devil Justin Smoak is (South Carolina) is projected as the #2 pick in the 2008 draft by Baseball America…

   Ø         Three former Diamond Devils have been named as Pre-season All-American First-Teamers: Matt Weiters (Georgia Tech), Justin Smoak (South Carolina) and Brad Chalk (Clemson).

   Ø         Three former Diamond Devils have been named in the Top 100 prospects of the 2007 draft: Matt Weiters (Georgia Tech, #2), Brad Chalk (Clemson, #31) and Reid Fronk (North Carolina, #92).

       Ø      Texas Rangers infielder Drew Meyer was a member of the Diamond Devil program for 5 years…