I N F O R M A T I O N CONTENTS 2003 WASHINGTON BASEBALL SCHEDULE Information .......................................... 1 FEBRUARY MARCH 2003 Season Preview ....................... 2-3 1 1 2003 Roster ......................................... 4 vs. CS 2003 Husky Returners .................... 5-19 Northridge 2003 Husky Newcomers ............... 20-23 2 p.m. Head Coach Ken Knutson ............. 24-26 234567 8 234567 8 Assistant Coaches ........................ 26-27 at vs. vs. San Wash. Wash. Baseball Staff .................................... 28 Pepperdine UCSB Diego St. State State 2002 Statistics ................................... 29 2 p.m. 10 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 2002 Results ...................................... 30 9101112131415 9101112131415 2002 Pac-10 Review .......................... 31 vs. at Loyola at Loyola Wash. at Oregon at Oregon CS CS 2002 Year in Review ......................... 32 Houston Marymount Marymount State State State Northridge Northridge Yearly Hitting Leaders ................... 33-34 10 a.m. 2 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 3 p.m. 1 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 1 p.m. Yearly Pitching Leaders .................. 35-36 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Husky Single-Season Records ............ 37 at Loyola CS at at Marymount Gonzaga Gonzaga Northridge UC Irvine UC Irvine Husky Career Records ....................... 38 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. Husky Team Records ......................... 39 Huskies in the Pros ............................ 40 23 24 25 26 27 28 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 vs. at at at at at Year-by-Year Results ......................... 41 Gonzaga San Diego UC Irvine Portland Portland Stanford Stanford All-Pac-10 & All-America .................. 42 1 p.m. 10 a.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 2 p.m. 6 p.m. 1 p.m. Postseason History ....................... 43-51 All-Time Lettermen ....................... 52-53 APRIL MAY Husky Hall of Fame ............................ 54 Mar. 30 Mar. 31 1234 5 12 3 All-Century Team .......................... 55-58 at UBC Oregon Oregon at Wash. at Wash. Pac-10 Opponents ......................... 59-60 Stanford (exhib.) State State State State Non-Conference Opponents .............. 61 1 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 6 p.m. 1 p.m. Series History .................................... 62 6789101112 45678910 Baseball Facilities ........................ 63-64 Oregon at Wash. Husky Experience ......................... 65-76 State at Arizona at Arizona State Portland Portland at UCLA at UCLA 1 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 12 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 1 p.m. Credits: The 2003 Washington Baseball 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Media Guide was written, edited and at Kansas at Kansas Arizona designed by Jeff Bechthold. The guide at Arizona State State at UCLA State was laid out and pasted up completely in- 1 p.m. 7 p.m. CT 12 p.m. CT 1 p.m. 1 p.m. house on desktop publishing applications. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Hawaii- Hawaii- Arizona Arizona Photos by Bruce Terami, Joanie Komura, Hilo (DH) Hilo California California State State USC USC C.W. Pack, Ethan Janson, Frank Ragsdale, 2:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 1 p.m. Jimmy Reynolds, Jeff Bechthold, Jim Daves and Marc McClintock. All front cover pho- 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Lewis- tos by Komura. California Clark St. USC NCAA NCAA Printing by University of Washington Pub- 1 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 1 p.m. Regionals Regionals lications Services (Judy Robertson). Any Home games shaded. All times local to site. additions or corrections (especially to the games on March 7-9 vs. Washington State and March 11-12 at Oregon State are non-conference games lettermen list) are welcome. games on Feb. 7-9 are at the Battle at the Beach, Malibu, Calif. games on Feb. 28-March 2 are at Lancaster Tournament, Lancaster, Calif. WASHINGTON BASEBALL QUICK FACTS Location: Seattle, Wash., 98195 Home Field: Husky Ballpark (turf infield / grass outfield; 2,000; opened 1998) Founded: November 4, 1861 Dimensions: 327 (LF line), 365 (gaps), 395 (CF), 317 (RF line) Enrollment: 25,000 Press Box Phone: (206) 685-1994 Nickname: Huskies Head Coach: Ken Knutson (Washington ‘81), 11th year Colors: Purple & Gold Knutson’s Career Record: 347-235-1 (10 years) School Song: “Bow Down to Washington” Knutson’s Record at UW: 337-235-1 (10 years) Interim President: Dr. Lee L. Huntsman Associate Head Coach: Joe Ross (Wisconsin-River Falls ‘82), 11th year Director of Athletics: Barbara Hedges Assistant Coaches: Travis Jewett (Washington State ‘93), second year Athletic Dept. Phone: (206) 543-2210 Gregg Swenson (Western Washington ‘94), second year Faculty Representative: Robert Aronson Undergraduate Assistant Coach: Jeremiah Porter (Washington ‘03), first year Senior Associate Director: Marie Tuite Strength & Conditioning Coach: Daniel Jahn (Washington ‘02), first year Director of Ticketing: Wendy Brown Ticket Office Phone: (206) 543-2200 Administrative Assistant: Sherry Eischen Baseball Phone: (206) 543-9365 Events Manager: Scott Baebler Event Mgmt. Phone: (206) 543-2246 Athletic Trainer: Pat Jenkins Graduate Certified Trainer: Sean Weaver Asst. Athletic Director / Media Relations Director: Jim Daves Training Room Phone: (206) 543-2239 Assistant Media Relations Director (baseball): Jeff Bechthold Equipment Manager: Jim Hagland Student Manager: Andrew Schatz Media Relations Phone: (206) 543-2230 Equipment Room Phone: (206) 685-3193 Media Relations Fax: (206) 543-5000 Audio Technician: Peter Young Public Address Announcer: Bill Abelson Bechthold Home & Cell Phone: (206) 526-0617 Conference: Pacific-10 2002 Record: 33-27-1 (15-9, tie-third) Bechthold e-mail: [email protected] Lettermen Returning/Lost: 23/12 Newcomers: 16 University of Washington Athletics Official Web Site: www.gohuskies.com Coaches’ e-mail addresses: Ken Knutson – [email protected] Joe Ross – [email protected] Travis Jewett – [email protected] Gregg Swenson – [email protected] 1 2 0 0 3 W A S H I N G T O N B A S E B A L L M E D I A G U I D E 2 0 0 3 S E A S O N O U T L O O K For the first time since the Pac-10 merged its season. He should be one of the top pitchers in the Northern and Southern baseball divisions in 1999, the conference.” Washington baseball team enters a new season on A second returning starter to the Husky rotation the heels of an NCAA Regional appearance the year is junior Clay Johnson, who emerged as a reliable before. weekend starter late last season. Washington was mired in the midst of a “Clay, like White, struggled early,” says Knutson, disappointing season midway through the 2002 “then he added a slider and that gave him an out campaign, but turned its fortunes completely around pitch. After that, he pitched well and competed. He in the second half, ending the year in third place in was outstanding in the regional.” the powerful Pac-10 and earning a trip to an NCAA The third spot in the weekend rotation is Regional in Rice. technically still up for grabs, as are the fourth and The Huskies used a Jay Garthwaite three-run fifth spots. However, junior Trevor Gibson, who has homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to spent his first two years pitching exclusively out of force Rice into a second championship game, but ran the bullpen, emerged as the top candidate after an out of gas in the finale. This year, the UW baseball outstanding fall practice season. team has its sites set higher. “We felt really good about Gibson,” Knutson says. “The big thing is that we have a lot of experience,” “He had a rough 2002 due to some unusual injuries. says Ken Knutson, who enters his 11th year as the Early on, though, he was a key bullpen guy. Now he’ll Huskies’ head coach in 2003. “That’s not so unusual. need to compete for a starting position. He was our But we have a chance to play no entirely new starters No. 1 guy last fall.” at any position on a given day. We could run out nine Entering the season, Knutson has a long list of guys that have started a lot during their career. pitchers that could see time as starters or relievers. “That experience creates our nucleus on the He hopes that performance and circumstance will sort mound and in the field. We had some very good things out shortly after the season begins. players leave the program, but we have plenty of good Senior Scott Robertson, juniors Brian Carter, Jeff players back. It’s their time. They just need to step up Petersen, Joel Villalobos, Trent Baysinger and into their roles.” sophomores Will Fenton, David Dowling and Josh Conover finished the fall as the coach’s top choices Junior second baseman Greg Isaacson PITCHERS for those early-season innings. The Huskies received a welcomed surprise when “Fenton will probably be a ‘silver bullet’ for me,” righty Sean White decided to return for his senior Knutson says of the right-hander fire-baller who season. White, one of the UW’s top draft prospects finished as the teams’ top reliever as a freshman in the season will be those that pitched well last year in 2002, slipped to the later rounds after (seemingly 2002. “He’s got a great arm and four good pitches. and last fall.” unfounded) concerns about his arm.