William & Mary Athletics

Senior Year (2012): 2012 Team Captain ... Appeared in 44 games, making the start behind the plate 43 times ... Hit .192 for the season with 21 RBIs, 18 runs scored and one home run ... Threw out 18 of 31 runners attempting to steal ... Recorded five multi-hit games while driving in multiple runs on four occasions ... Went 2-for-4 with a double against ODU (May 6) ... Registered a hit and two RBIs in game-two against Norfolk State (April 28) ... Went two-for-three with six RBIs and a grand slam against Towson (March 31) ... Tallied two hits and two runs scored while connecting on two doubles at Virginia (Feb. 22) ...    

Junior Year (2011): 2011 Team Captain ... Preseason All-CAA Honorable Mention ... Appeared in 50 games, earning 44 starts behind the plate ... Hit .232 on the season with five doubles, a home run, and 13 RBIs ... Threw out 27 of 53 potential base stealers on the season ... Totaled eight multi-hit games and two multi-RBI games on the season ... Reached base safely in 12-straight games over the course of the season ... Went a season-best 3-for-3 with a RBI, two walks along with a walk-off single in the 11th inning against George Mason on March 19 ... Knocked in a season-high two RBIs against Fairfield (February 26) and at Old Dominion (March 13) ... In the last game of the season, hit his lone home run of the season, going 1-for-3 with a RBI two walks, and two runs scored ...

Sophomore Year (2010): Preseason All-CAA Honorable Mention … Finished eighth in the CAA with 19 doubles … Caught 19 runners stealing, the second best total in the conference … Batted .289 on the season, the fifth-highest total on the squad … Scored 29 runs on 54 hits and three home runs … Finished second on the Tribe with 52 RBIs … Put up a .439 slugging percentage, the fourth-highest total on the team … Knocked in eight RBIs and hit a grand slam in a 4-for-5 day versus UMass (March 21) … Went 3-for-4 in the win over North Carolina (March 9) … Drove in six runs in the first two games of the season against UMES (February 19-20) … Batted 2-for-4 and drove in three runs versus Duke (April 6) … Had six RBIs in the two-game series with USC-Upstate (May 18-19) … Went 2-for-4 with two RBIs in the first two games against UNC-Wilmington (May 13-14) … Also went 2-for-4 with two RBIs in the first two games of the UMass series (March 19-20) … Batted 2-for-4 versus Seton Hall in two straight games (March 5-6) …

Freshman Year (2009): The only catcher selected to the All-CAA Rookie Team last season…Fourth on the team with a .282 average, best among all returning players…Had 33 hits, 4 doubles, and 19 RBIs in his rookie campaign…Ranks fourth in school history in runners caught stealing for a single season with 16…Named Green and Gold World Series MVP 2009…Drove in the game-winning run versus Princeton in the 11th inning to give the Tribe a 10-9 victory (March 7)…Went 3-4 with a double and an RBI in the Tribe’s 7-6 win over George Mason (March 29)…Batted 3-for-5 with a double in the Tribe’s first conference win of the season versus Georgia State (March 22)…Had the eventual game winning RBI in Tribe’s 14-10 victory over Virginia Tech (April 21)…Racked up back-to-back two-hit games against UNC Wilmington (April 12) and Towson (April 17)…Scored two runs after going 2-for-5 versus George Washington (March 10)…Pinch hit single in 9th helped lead to 12th-inning, 5-4 comeback victory versus Northeastern (April 5)….Went 3-for-3 with an RBI in first collegiate game, a 10-9 victory over Buffalo (February 20) ...

Prep: Led Notre Dame Academy to four consecutive VISBA Virginia state championships ... Was a PG rated Top-20 Virginia player in 2007 ... Preseason Under Armor All-American in 2007 ... Named first-team All-Virginia in 2006 and second-team in 2005 ... Led the team in batting average in 2006 ... Honor Roll every year in high school ... Won the Outstanding Award for United States History in 2005 …

Personal: Son of Mike and Kim Forsten … Enjoys the beach, good food & working out ... Picked W&M because of its commitment to academics, nice campus, and solid baseball program.