UNLV REBELS

Braden Walker

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Class: Senior Hometown: Pleasant Grove, Utah High School: Lone Peak HS

Height / Weight: 6-1 / 200 Position: C Experience: 3L

UNLV: One of the most versatile players on the Rebel roster ... Can play all over the infield but will primarily be behind the plate catching ... Has also started games at shortstop and third base ... A solid hitter at the plate who hits for both power and average.

2007: Made a career-high 59 starts for the Rebels, including 54 at shortstop, three at third base and two behind the plate ... Hit .273 (59-216) with two home runs, 11 doubles and four triples ... Drove in 25 runs and scored 27 while drawing 18 walks ... Had 17 multi-hit games, which were the fourth-most on the team ... Laced a triple and drove in three runs in the season opener at Cal State Northridge ... Went 1-for-2 with a triple, three RBI and three walks against Pepperdine on Feb. 3 ... Crossed the plate three times and had two hits against Cal Poly on March 10 ... Collected a career-high four hits, going 4-for-4 with a run scored against New Mexico on May 10 ... Named to the Academic All-MWC squad for a second straight time.

2006: Played in 49 games, including starting 44 ... Came out of training camp as the starting catcher, but also started games at third base and one at shortstop ... Hit .321 (53-165), a mark that was fourth on the team ... Named the MWC Player of the Week on May 15 ... Drilled three home runs and had 37 RBI ... Hit a bottom-of-the-ninth, walk-off grand slam against New Mexico on May 12 ... Finished that game by tying a career-high with five RBI ... Two games earlier he had set his career high by driving in five runs on three hits at Arizona on May 6 ... Recorded three hits against UC Riverside on April 4 ... Scored four runs in a game twice, both times against Eastern Michigan ... Strung together a 12-game hitting streak, the second-longest on the team ... Earned Academic All-MWC honors.

2005: Played in 30 games for the Rebels, including 13 starts ... Showed he could hit for average, batting .365 (23-63), which was the second-best mark on the squad ... Made his first career start against Florida Atlantic on March 5 ... Collected his first hit and RBI in that game ... Went 3-4 with four runs scored and an RBI in the Rebels' 18-15 win over Utah on April 16.

High School: A 2004 graduate of Lone Peak HS in Highland, Utah ... Was a three-year letterwinner for the Knights as a shortstop ... Earned first team all-state honors during his season, when he was named the MVP of the state all-star game ... Also earned first team all-region honors as a senior and junior ... Named second team all-state as a junior in 2003.

Personal: Braden Stephens Walker was born on March 23, 1986, in American Fork, Utah ... The son of Kim and Lisa Walker ... Majoring in university studies ... Has two brothers, Devin (16) and Easton (9) ... His father played baseball for Utah Valley State College for four years.

Walker's Career Hitting Statistics
Year	AVG	GP-GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB	BB	SO
2005	.365	30-13	63	18	23	5	0	0	8	28	7	16
2006	.321	49-44	165	37	53	11	4	3	37	81	13	35
2007	.273	59-59	216	27	59	11	4	2	25	84	18	38
Total	.304	138-116	444	82	135	27	8	5	70	193	38	99