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Joe Meggs
Joe Meggs

Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Terre Haute, Ind.
High School:
Terre Haute North
Last College:
Indiana State
Height / Weight:
6-0 / 195
Position:
OF
Experience:
1V
B/T:
R/R

05/22/2012

Huskies Edge Redhawks, 5-4

Meggs homers in first, breaks tie with hit in eighth.

05/05/2012

Dawgs Knock 19 Hits In 6-3 Win At USC

Huskies will try for series sweep Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

04/13/2012

UW's Ninth-Inning Rally Falls Short At Cal

Huskies score three two-out runs in the final inning of 7-6 defeat.

03/10/2012

Huskies Shut Out, 2-0, At Cal Poly

Dawgs and Mustangs close out series Sunday with a 1:00 p.m. game.

02/27/2012

Camporeale Drives In 7 In UW Win At CSUN

Huskies belt three homers in 18-6 victory at Northridge.

PERSONAL: Born in Camarillo, Calif. ... son of Teresa and Lindsay Meggs, the UW's head baseball coach ... has a younger sister, Kelly, and a younger brother, Jack ... Kelly is a sophomore basketball player at UC Irvine ... father played baseball at UCLA and in the Kansas City Royals organization ... economics major.

WASHINGTON
2011: Earned honorable mention All-Pac-10 ... also a first-team Academic All-Pac-10 selection ... started 44 games, 42 of them in left field and two at first base ... sixth in the Pac-10 with 13 HBPs ... led the Huskies in batting ... missed the first couple of weeks of the season due to injury .. in first game (March 5 vs. BYU), went 2-for-3 with a walk and an RBI ... hit safely in first 10 games of the season ... 4-for-12 in Fullerton series ... went 1-for-3 with a walk, three runs and five RBI vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff ... 4-for-7 over the first two games of the Nevada series ... drove in the first run of the game with a 10th-inning squeeze bunt in the UW's 3-0, 10-inning win over Oregon on April 9 ... 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles and an RBI vs. SeattleU on April 19 ... 6-for-10 in USC series ... went 3-for-3 with a home run and four RBI in the final game vs. the Trojans ... had three hits in each of the three conference games vs. Washington State (9-for-14 in the series) ... was 3-for-4 with two doubles in the first of three vs. the Cougars, then 3-for-5 in the next two ... had a 14-game hitting streak from April 19 to May 16 ... during that streak, was 26-for-57 (.456) ... played summer ball for the Terre Haute (Ind.) Rex in the Prospect League.

2010: Redshirted the season due to NCAA rules after transferring to the UW from Indiana State ... played summer ball for the Terre Haute (Ind.) Rex in the Prospect League.

INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: Played one season at Indiana State, where his father served as head coach prior to the 2010 season ... played in 34 games, starting 21, for the Sycamores ... hit .326 (29-for-89) with 14 runs batted in ... helped team to a 33-21 record and a second-place finish in the Missouri Valley Conference.

TERRE HAUTE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from and played his final two seasons at Terre Haute North High ... played at Chico (Calif.) High as a freshman and sophomore ... earned a total of three varsity letters in baseball ... hit .469 with .528 on-base percentage as a senior at Terre Haute ... all-conference and all-Wabash Valley as both a junior and senior ... also an Indiana North-South All-Star as a senior ... named his team's rookie of the year as a sophomore at Chico High ... also earned two letters in football ... graduated high school with a 3.85 GPA.

JOE MEGGS' CAREER UW STATISTICS

Year      Avg GP-GS  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP  OB% SF SH SB-ATT
2011.... .317 44-44 164 20 52 12  0  1  17 67 .409  9  13 22   6 .398  0 11  2-5
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