Player Bio: Ryan Lavarnway

Ryan Lavarnway

Class:
Junior

Hometown:
Woodland Hills, Calif.

High School:
El Camino Real

Height / Weight:
6-3 / 210

Position:
C

Birthdate:
08/07/1987

B-T:
R-R

2007: Named Third Team All-America by Baseball America and Second Team All-America by PingBaseball.com...Earned Second Team All-New England and Second Team All-Northeast honors...First Team All-Ivy...Led the NCAA in batting average (.467) and slugging percentage (.873)...Won the G.H. Walker, Jr. Award as Most Valuable Player after setting single-season Yale records for batting average, slugging percentage, home runs (14), hits (70), doubles (17), RBIs (55) and total bases (131)...Moved from the outfield to catcher, making 30 starts behind the plate while also starting 12 games in right field and one in left...Got at least one hit in the first 23 games of the season, breaking a 78-year-old school record for longest hitting streak...Including the final two games of 2006, his streak reached an Ivy-record 25 straight games...Hit home runs in three straight games from April 18-21, including a shot over the manual scoreboard in center field at Yale Field...Had 25 multi-hit games and 15 multi-RBI games...Became the first player in Ivy League history to win Player of the Week honors three weeks in a row (March 20, March 27, April 3)...Hit .452 with six homers and 23 RBIs in Ivy League games.

2006: Played in 43 games, making 38 starts, primarily in right field...Led the team with six home runs and finished fourth with 25 RBIs...Earned Ivy Player and Rookie of the Week honors on March 21 after homering in three straight games and batting .421 with 10 RBIs and an .895 slugging percentage over a six-game stretch (March 13-18)...Went 2-for-3 with four RBIs in a 12-6 win at Davidson (March 16)...Tallied the game-winning RBI with a pinch-hit single in the seventh inning at Davidson (March 18)...Had a 10-game hitting streak from March 11-25...Smacked a two-run single in the first inning of a 3-1 win at Brown (April 28).

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....  .281  43-38   135   22   38   9   0   6   25   65  .481   8   5  21   2  .342   1   1   0-1     51   2   1  .981
2007....  .467* 43-43   150   33   70  17   1  14   55  131  .873* 18   7  25   1  .531   4   0   4-8    200  28   6  .974
2008....  .398  34-34   108   28   43   7   0  13   42   89  .824  29   7  19   0  .541   2   0   4-6    180  17   2  .990
TOTAL...  .384 120-115  393   83  151  33   1  33  122  285  .725  55  19  65   3  .482   7   1   8-15   431  47   9  .982
*-Led NCAA