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#4 Tim Avants

Outfielder
Height: 5-10
Weight: 190

Class: Junior
Hometown: St. Charles, Mo.
Major: Business management

ABOUT TIM

Born: June 30, 1987
Parents: John and Missy Avants
Sisters: Kim and Elizabeth
Brothers: Dan

Goal for the Season: Win conference
Best Thing About Maryville: The wind
Favorite Place on Campus: Colden Hall
Favorite Restaurant: Applebee's
Favorite Pro Athlete: Michael Jordan
Favorite Movie I've See This Year: "Dark Knight"
Favorite TV Shows: "Seinfeld"
Current Cell Phone Ring: Default
Sport You’re Least Successful At: Croquet
Person You'd Switch Places For a Day: Tiger Woods
Dream Job: Pro golfer
First Job: Target employee
If You Could Travel Anywhere in the World: Australia
Something You Have to Do Before Turning 40: Graduate college
If You Could Have Any Talent: Be able to fly
Best Player You've Played Against: Jeremy Maclin
Biggest Pet Peeve: Talking too much
Most Influential Person: My dad
Most Famous Person You've Met: Frank Thomas
If You Won The Lottery, You Would: Be rich
Most Memorable Game: Fort Hays State
Best Thing About Coach Loe's Practice: They're always exciting
Best Thing About Home Games: The weather
Best Thing About Road Games: Bus trips

2008

Made 22 appearances and tallied seven runs ... made his only stolen base of the season count against West Florida (2/26) when he later scored the first of two Bearcat runs in the eighth inning to cap a 9-2 victory ... went one-of-two in the second game against Southwest Baptist (3/21) and made his first fielding assist in a 18-6 victory against the purple Bearcats

2007

Saw action in seven games and totaled 22 at bats scoring 12 runs ... ended season with a .318 batting average ... went two-of-five in the second game against Minnesota-Crookston (3/11) with two RBIs, one run and one double

Francis Howell High School

2005 graduate ... earned first team all-state, all-metro, all-district and all-conference honors

Personal Bio

Son of John and Melissa Avants ... born June 30, 1987

Career Stats

Season	Avg.	GP-GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB	SLG%	BB	HBP	SO	GDP	OB%	SF	SH	SB-ATT	PO	A	E	FLD%
2007	.318	24-7	22	12	7	2	0	0	4	9	.409	9	0	4	0	.516	0	0	2-2	6	0	1	.857
2008	.333	22-0	3	7	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	0	0	0	0	.333	0	0	1-2	2	0	0	1.000
2009	.083	20-1	12	7	1	0	0	0	2	1	.083	0	0	3	1	.083	0	0	2-4	7	0	0	1.000
Total	.243	66-8	37	26	9	2	0	0	6	11	.297	9	0	7	1	.391	0	0	5-8	15	0	1	.938