2014: Voted First-Team All-American and the NAIA West Player of the Year ... voted to the Avista NAIA World Series All-Tournament Team ... hit .391 in 55 games ... collected 90 hits including 18 doubles, four home runs and two triples ... knocked in 48 runs and scored 53 ... slugged .539 with a .472 on-base percentage ... stole three bases
2013: Hit .340 with four homers and 31 RBI in 54 games (52 starts) in center and left field…Second on team with 215 at-bats and 55 runs scored…Ranked third on Warriors with 73 hits, including 17 doubles and two triples…Started season on a tear, getting seven hits in first 12 at-bats with seven RBI and eight runs scored…Had four hits in win over Central Washington…Poked a single through the right side of the infield to drive in winning run in 3-2 victory over The Master’s in Avista-NAIA World Series, sending Warriors to semifinals.
COLLEGE: Hit .346 with seven doubles, 12 triples, 27 RBI and 12 stolen bases as a junior at Mt. San Antonio under coach Stacy Parker…Led Mounties in batting average, hits, runs and RBI, while only making one error in the field…Triples total led entire CCCBCA…All-Pacific Association third team selection among players in California, Washington and Oregon…First team All-American…South Coast Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Year and was also All-SCC as a freshman.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from South Hills HS in 2010, where he played varsity football and baseball as a senior…At South Hills, earned first-team All-CIF Southern Section Division III honors and first-team All-San Antonio League…Batted .440 with three homers, two triples, 10 doubles and stole 15 bases as a senior, and hit over .430 in each of high school seasons…All-Tournament team selection at the Diamond Sports National Classic in 2010…Also a standout quarterback in high school, throwing for 1,366 yards, 16 TDs at South Hills as a senior…Went to West Covina HS for freshman, sophomore and junior years earning two varsity letters in baseball and one in football.
PERSONAL: Born Jan. 18, 1992 in Moreno Valley, Calif. to Russell Shirley…Has two brothers, Kyle and Nick, and a sister, Michelle…Brother Kyle played football at Bethany College…Another relative, Mike Saxon, was a punter for three NFL teams from 1985-1995…Majoring in Kinesiology at LCSC…Hobbies include camping and dirt bikes.
