Brent Young has been a new addition to the UW-Whitewater baseball team in 2011. The senior 1st baseman arrived on campus at UWW after transferring with teammate Lee Kimbell from Lambuth University in Jackson, Tennessee. Oh, by the way, Young is a native of Brisbane, Australia.
Brent arrived at UW-Whitewater after earning 1st Team All-Conference honors in 2010 at Lambuth.
He also was a member of the Australian Under-19 baseball team in the 2006 World Championships that toured South Africa and Cuba.
Brent has seen more and more playing time as the season has progressed. Perhaps his most memorable moment of the season was a couple of weeks ago against UW-Platteville at Jim Miller Stadium.
The Warhawks, in the middle of conference title chase, found itself trailing the Pioneers 6-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning.
UW-W stayed alive in the bottom of the ninth with Danny Putnam stroking a single and stealing second. With two outs, Platteville elected to intentionally walk Donovan, UW-W's cleanup hitter. The strategy backfired when YounGcame through with a two out, 3-2 pitch single to tie the game and send it into extra innings, Whitewater's first extra inning game of the season.
Teammate Matt Beyer delivered the game-winning hit in the 10th.
While Young is hitting .295 with a couple doubles, one home run and 11 RBI in 22 games played it is his energy both on the field and in the dugout that seemingly energizes his team game in, and game out.
The Aussie shows that energy by often being the first out the dugout to greet a teammate following an impact play.
(In the above photo – Brent Young (22) is first out of the dugout to greet Rob Coe (10) coming off the field in one in one of Coe’s relief appearances on the mound – Tom Pattison photo)
To have great senior leadership on any team often equates to the success a team will have.
The 2011 UW-Whitewater baseball team has a strong nucleus of seniors led by Riley Tincher, Jeff Donovan, Rob Coe and Danny Putnam.
Despite being in his first season with the Hawks add Young to that strong senior nucleus.
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