Brett Blackwood

Height:
6-1
Weight:
190
Class:
Redshirt Junior
Hometown:
Hartselle, Ala.
High School:
Hartselle HS

JUNIOR SEASON (2018)
- Tabbed Second-Team All-Conference USA
- Appeared in 46 games with 42 starts, all at designated hitter
- Ranked second on the team in batting average hitting .267 and was tied for first in home runs with six
- Recorded first career multi-home run game at Old Dominion (4/8) and he launched two in the Blazers’ 6-3 win
- Hit the go ahead three run home run in UAB’s 4-3 series finale win at Charlotte (3/31)
- Set career highs in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, RBI, total bases, slugging percentage and on-base percentage
- Led the team in multi-RBI games and ranked second in multi-hit contests
- Named to the CoSIDA Academic All-Region Team and the Conference USA All-Academic Team
- Named to Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll

SOPHOMORE SEASON (2017)
- Common contributor out of the dugout in pinch-hitting roles
- Led the team with 13 pinch-hit at-bats and five pinch-hits (.385 average in that situation)
- Played in 27 games with 11 starts (all starts coming as a designated hitter)
- Batted .255 with one double, three runs, and eight RBI
- Provided a pair of sacrifice flies, the most on the team for any player that appeared in under 50 games
- Career-best three hits and two runs scored against Old Dominion on May 6
- Received the C-USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal
- Named to the Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll

REDSHIRT SEASON (2016)
- Appeared in one game, hitting a single in his lone at-bat of the season
- Missed the rest of the season with an injury and redshirted
- Held a 4.0 GPA for the entire year

FRESHMAN SEASON (2015)
- Played in 21 games as a true freshman with 14 starts, mainly as the designated hitter with 11 hits
- Hit .186 with six extra-base hits – four doubles, one triple, one home run – and drove in eight runs
- Drilled a two-run home run in his first collegiate at-bat (Feb. 14 vs. Western Michigan) at Regions Field
- Went on to record four RBI that game with two hits and two runs
- Named to the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll

HIGH SCHOOL
- Played at Hartselle High School for head coach William Booth
- Named all-state and all-area as a senior
- Broke the AHSAA state record for hits in a single season with 103 as a junior (old record was 92)
- Added a .488 average and 18 home runs that season
- Named a high school all-American, super all-state and all-area in 2013, helping lead Hartselle to the state championship where he was named MVP
- Named a semifinalist for all-area shortstop as a sophomore
- Hartselle record holder for at-bats, hits, RBIs, doubles, home runs and batting average
- Played Fall Ball for the Kansas City Royal and New York Mets
- Volunteered by coaching a baseball camp for players aged 10-12 years old
- Member of the National Honor Society

PERSONAL
- Born Brett Jordan Blackwood on June 19, 1995
- Son of John and Tabatha Blackwood
- Has one brother, Collin
- Majoring in accounting