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CAREER HONORS
• 2007 Fall Semester Baylor Award for Academic Excellence
• Three-time Big 12 Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll
SUMMER 2008
Played for the Wisconsin Woodchucks of the Northwoods League ... Led Woodchucks to a 41-27 record and south division title ... Appeared in 39 games ... Hit .270 (38-for-141) with two doubles, a triple, 10 RBI, 20 runs scored and 12 walks ... Also had four stolen bases.
2008 (FRESHMAN)
Played 22 games with three starts .. .Made two starts in center field and one in right field ... Appeared in seven Big 12 games, all off the bench ... Hit .111 (2-for-18) with four runs scored, four RBI and four walks ... First career action was as a pinch-runner against Purdue in the season's second game (2/23) ... Came off the bench against Texas Southern and scored first run after drawing a bases-loaded walk (2/26) ... Earned first career start and went 2-for-4 with two RBI against Louisiana Tech (3/5) ... Only two hits of the season ... Pinch ran and scored at Oral Roberts (3/11) ... Drew a walk and scored in a start at ORU the following day ... Drew a pinch-hit walk against Oklahoma State (3/14) ... Third start of the season was against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3/26).
HIGH SCHOOL
Earned four letters as an outfielder for head coach Travis Collins at Plano [Texas] East High School ... Led Panthers to district title as a senior ... Three-time all-district selection ... Named co-district freshman of the year in 2004 ... Earned team MVP honors as a junior and second-team all-area honors during senior season ... Hit .418 during junior campaign and .390 with 43 RBI as a senior ... Also earned three letters in football, playing wide receiver and running back ... Two-time all-district and all-county selection and 2006 District 9-5A Offensive MVP ... Two-time academic all-district honoree ... Lettered in track as a junior ... National Honor Society member ... AP Scholar ... Graduated top three percent of class.
PERSONAL
Full name is Christopher George Slater ... Born Sept. 12, 1989, in Durham, N.C. ... Son of Mark and Toni Slater ... Business major.
