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Blake Beemer

School
Ball State
Position
Outfield
Major
Sports Administration
AVG
.257
R
21
H
35
FLD%
1.000
RBI
20

Classroom

Beemer graduated from Ball State with his BS in Business Administration in December 2012, achieving a 3.64 GPA.  He is currently enrolled in graduate school at BSU, pursuing his Masters in Business Administration.

Character

Beemer is a three-year captain for the Cardinals, the first three-year captain head coach Rich Maloney has had in his 17 years.  He has also played through the adversity of a bad shoulder in his left, and throwing, arm.  Not only is Beemer a driven baseball player, but also a motivated student.  Last year, while he played summer ball for the Fayetteville SwampDogs (Coastal Plains League), he also worked as a front office intern for the team.  In that role Beemer worked from 8am-4pm selling tickets, cleaning the ballpark, stocking merchandise and even mascoting before playing a game 60 times in 68 days.  His summer story was featured in the local Fayetteville Observer newspaper.  Beemer is also an avid supporter of his fellow student-athletes, leading the entire BSU student body in “student rewards points,” earned for attendance of athletic events.  Throughout school, baseball and spirit, Beemer also holds down a job working at the BSU call center.  He was the center’s top pledge getter from May 2011 through January 2012 and was second in monetary donations.  He raised $30,000 for the university in that capacity.

Community

Active in both the university and local communities, Beemer has spent four years as a member of Ball State’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).  His last two years with SAAC have been spent on the organization’s five-member executive board.  In that role, Beemer is part of the communication between the university’s athletics administration and the student-athletes.  Also as part of his connection to Ball State, Beemer served as a student representative on the university’s NCAA certification committee.  Away from school Beemer has been a part of various service projects, ranging from a cleanup of Muncie’s White River to working with underprivileged children at the local Buley Center and helping to organize an effort on his team to donate old baseball gloves to American troops fighting overseas.  Beemer’s 2011 Christmas list also did not include presents from his family, instead having them donate that money to the local Muncie Mission during the holiday season.

Competition

A three-year starter entering his senior season, Beemer holds a career .296 batting average with 64 RBI.  Fourth on the Cardinals in average last season at .282, Beemer batted .301 in Mid-American Conference games alone.  Beemer finished the 2012 season riding a career best 11-game on-base streak.  He reached base safely in 21 of the Cardinals final 23 games last year.  He enters 2013 as the Cardinals starting right fielder, but can also slide down and play first base as needed.  A superior defender with a .995 career fielding percentage, Beemer has committed only two errors at Ball State.  He went his entire sophomore season without a miscue in the field.