2019 Baseball Roster
Jersey Number 20
Matt Reitano
- Position:
- C
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-0 / 220
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- San Diego, Calif.
- Major:
- Exercise Science
Senior
Freshman
Mira Mesa High School
Personal
- Started 18 of the 27 games he played in
- Batted .130 with an on base percentage of .319
- Recorded seven hits and eight walks
- Showed his toughness by getting hit eight times by pitches
- Named All-Big West Honorable Mention
- Played 43 games as a catcher and third base starting 33 times
- Hit .238 with 25 hits, nine for extra bases including 3 HR
- Scored 17 runs and drove in 17 as well
- Caught 16 of 31 attempted base stealers, posted a fielding percentage of .996 behind the plate
- Appeared in 20 games while starting 9
- Hit .212 (7-33) and earned 6 runs
- Drove in 5 RBI
- Played summer ball for two seasons for West Coast League's Wenatchee Apple Sox
Freshman
- Played 38 games starting 25
- Hit .200 with three doubles, a triple, and a HR
- Scored nine runs while driving in seven
- Played summer ball with the Wenatchee Apple Sox of the West Coast League
- Hit .179 in 36 games with four doubles and a triple
- Scored 17 runs while driving home 10
Mira Mesa High School
- 2015 team Most Valuable Player
- Hit .286 his senior year with 20 hits and four RBI
- Had seven doubles and a home run
- Sported a .420 on-base percentage
- 2013 team advanced to the CIF Division I finals
- Won the 2012 Gold Glove Award
- Also lettered in football as a free safety and tigth end
- National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete and Hall of Fame inductee his senior season
- Voted the defensive team MVP in 2014
- All-Eastern League Defense first-team choice as a junior and sophomore
- Selected as the 2012 defensive team captain
- Holds the single-season record with seven blocked kicks
- Owns the career mark for most blocked kicks with nine
- Played club baseball for Encinitas Reds under Frani LaPena and West Coast Bulldogs/Clippers under coach Ben Adams
Personal
- Parents are Rick and Monica, one sibling, Morgan
- Father played football at Western New Mexico and Phoenix JC
- Sister, Morgan, played soccer, field hockey, and swam in high school
- Majoring in biological sciences concentrating in exercise science
- Wishes to attend medical school
- Received the 2015 U.S. Army Reserve National Scholar-Athlete Award
- Chosen to the National Society of High School Scholars in 2012-13
- Three-time Mira Mesa High School Top Scholar Award winner
- Volunteers at the San Diego County Food Bank
- Helps with Mira Mesa Youth Football and San Diego Coastkeeper
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