Personal
- Served an LDS church mission to France
- Brother David played for BYU
- Majored in zoology and minored in French at BYU
- Graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Dental School (UKMC) in 1994
- Graduated from the UCLA orthodontic program in 1996
- Married to Heidi
Career Highlights
- Two-time First Team All-American 1987-88
- Two-time Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year 1987-88
- Second team All-American by Baseball America 1988
- First team All-Region Nine and All-WAC 1988
- Winner of BYU's Ed Stein Scholar-Athlete Award 1988
- First team All-Region Eight 1987
- All-WAC Tournament 1987
- All-WAC Eastern Division 1987
- Holds the BYU single-season records for most runs batted in (108) and most runs (86)
- Also holds the BYU career record for most RBI(285), and his 71 home runs ranked second only to Cory Snyder’s 73 career homers
- In his final two years at BYU, he struck out only 40 times in 465 at-bats and had 199 hits
- As a senior, he broke 11 WAC records and helped the Cougars tie an NCAA record, with 10 grand slams as a team
Before BYU
- Prepped at Fullerton Union High
- Was all-league in football, passing for a CIF-record 477 yards in one game, breaking Pat Haden's California State record .
- Was all-league in baseball
After BYU
Post BYU Honors and Societies
- One of three applicants selected from a pool of 250, he graduated from the UCLA orthodontic program in 1996
- Inducted into the BYU Hall of Fame 2000
Stats
Year Avg. G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB-SBA1983 .403 42 124 32 50 14 0 2 31 70 18 13 21986 .330 33 106 26 35 6 0 3 19 54 13 16 21987 .439 63 246 75 108 18 1 31 108 221 34 23 14-141988 .416 60 219 86 91 11 0 35 100 207 47 17 4-5
