| Brett Schaefer |
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Graduated
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| Hometown:
Orland Park, Ill.
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| High School:
Brother Rice
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| Height / Weight:
6-4 / 235
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| Position:
1B/DH
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| B/T:
R/R
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2009 BROOKS WALLACE NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD WATCH LIST
2009 HORIZON LEAGUE ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
2008 HORIZON LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
2008 HORIZON LEAGUE ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
Career: Entered senior season as a 2009 Brooks Wallace National Player of the Year Award candidate...career .331 hitter (158-for-478) with 15 homers and 101 RBI in 145 games in a UIC uniform.
2009: Hit .323 (51-for-158) in 45 games, making 42 starts primarily as UIC's designated hitter...second on the team with nine multi-RBI games...hitting .309 (21-for-68) in Horizon League play...went 3-for-4 with two doubles against Vanderbilt on Mar. 8...hit go-ahead three-run homer with two outs in the eighth in 4-3 nightcap win over Northwestern on Mar. 14...hit a three-run blast against Valparaiso on Apr. 25...had a stellar 2009 Horizon League Tournament, hitting .591 (13-for-22) with eight RBI, four doubles and a homerun in five games...was named to the 2009 All-Horizon League Tournament Team.
2008: UIC's top hitter with a .382 batting average, 10 home runs, 27 extra-base hits and 61 runs batted in...61 RBI rank fourth in UIC history for runs batted in during a single-season....named Horizon League Championship Most Valuable Player and selected to Horizon League All-Tournament Team after hitting .733 (11-for-15) and driving in seven runs in four games during the league tournament...appeared in all but one of UIC's 57 games, starting each of those 56 contests...owned a team-leading .613 slugging percentage...perfect six-for-six in stolen bases...hit .552 (16-for-29) with 10 RBI in seven postseason games spanning the league tournament and the NCAA College Station Regional...two-time Horizon League Player of the Week (March 25, May 19)...went 5-for-5, driving in four runs in the process, in the league championship game against Milwaukee on May 25...drove in the game-tying run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth in UIC's comeback 7-6 win over Valparaiso on May 17 to help the Flames clinch the Horizon League regular season title...homered twice, hitting a game-tying two-run long ball with two away in the seventh, in the league tournament against Milwaukee on May 23...drove in a career-high five runs, four coming on a grand slam, in the opener of a twinbill against Trinity International on Apr. 26...hit second grand slam of the season at Purdue on May 14...hit .529 (9-for-17) with five extra-base hits and nine RBI in final four regular season games to garner Ping!Baseball's Division I Spotlight Performance of the Week recognition on May 22.
2007: Appeared in 21 games, starting 18 of those contests...forced to sit out of a majority of the middle of the season after suffering a fracture to his right wrist...went 3-for-4 and hit first collegiate home run in UIC's 11-4 win over No. 14 Georgia Tech on Feb. 17...turned in a 2-for-3 day at the plate with an RBI against No. 19 Tennessee on Mar. 4...drove in a run in his first game back from a right wrist fracture against Cleveland State on Apr. 27.
2006: Saw action in 23 games, starting nine, in his first season...made collegiate debut against Air Force on Feb. 17...picked up first career hit against Creighton on Feb. 17.
2005: Missed the entire 2005 campaign due to a fracture in his right elbow and earned a medical redshirt, retaining four years of eligibility.
Prep/Personal: Three-year varsity letterwinner in both baseball and soccer for the Crusaders...led Brother Rice to 98 victories over three seasons...as a senior, pushed Brother Rice to the Catholic League Championship, Schaumburg Flyers Tournament Championship and to the sectional finals...was a part of the Summer State Final team as a sophomore...named to both the All-Catholic League baseball and soccer teams as a junior and senior...garnered All-Area honors in baseball and soccer from both The Star and Daily Southtown as a junior...picked up All-Area honors from The Star and The Regional Reporter as a senior...member of National Honor Society...set the state record for most consecutive shutouts in a season for soccer...led Crusaders in homers as a junior (5) and senior (8)...batted .386 as a junior and .384 as a senior...born April 9, 1986...son of Randy and Pam Schaefer...major is business.
Year Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%
2006.... .205 23-9 44 3 9 1 0 0 3 10 .227 2 4 15 2 .300 0 0 1-4 44 1 2 .957
2007.... .266 21-18 64 7 17 4 0 1 4 24 .375 9 1 24 1 .365 0 0 0-1 44 3 2 .959
2008.... .382 56-56 212 51 81 15 2 10 61 130 .613 20 11 16 3 .450 6 0 6-6 374 22 5 .988
2009.... .323 45-42 158 31 51 12 0 4 33 75 .475 17 5 33 2 .399 3 0 1-1 74 3 1 .987
TOTAL... .331 145-125 478 92 158 32 2 15 101 239 .500 48 21 88 8 .408 9 0 8-12 536 29 10 .983
