Greg Fater
Greg Fater
Player Profile
Class:
Graduate Student

Hometown:
Newport, R.I.

High School:
Rogers

Height / Weight:
6-0 / 190

Position:
C

Birthdate:
09/20/1980

B/T:
R/R

VILLANOVA: Team captain...Fifth-year senior... Entering second season as full-time catcher...Role model student-athlete.

2002- Started in 30 of the 37 games in which he played...Batted .277 (26-for-94) scoring 16 runs...Posted three doubles and one triple…Walked 16 times and drove in 11 runs…On the defensive side of the ball, Fater threw out 11-of-47 attempted base stealers...Had six multi-hit games...Tallied two three-hit games...Recorded three hits and three RBI at St. John’s...In 18 conference games, he was eight-for-44 with six runs scored, three RBI, and six bases on balls…Threw out 11 runners in 2002.

2001- Saw time in 19 games on the year, starting in six...Batted .133 (two-for-15) with seven runs scored and one RBI...One-for-one in stolen base attempts.

2000- Played in 14 games on the season...Started six contests in his first season with the ’Cats...Batted .296 (eight-for-27) on the season...Recorded three runs scored, two doubles and four RBI.

ROGERS HIGH SCHOOL: Earned three varsity letters in baseball for head coach Tiger Bowley, as well as two in football and one in basketball...Named to the All-Division first team for baseball in both his junior and senior seasons...Garnered All-Division first team honors in football from 1997-98. P

PERSONAL: Earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology graduating from Villanova in 2002...Oldest of three sons of Gregory and Kerry Fater...Father, Gregory, was a catcher on the Villanova baseball team from 1968-72...Born 9/20/80 in Newport, R.I.

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