The 2009-2010 season featured many great performances from many great Spartans.
Mike Schwartz was however arguably the largest piece of Tampa’s conference championship puzzle.
Schwartz was named Sunshine State Conference Player of the Week.
The Tampa designated hitter led the Spartans in many categories:
.421 batting average
11 Home runs
70 Runs scored
11 Hit by pitches
117 Total bases
.597 Slugging percentage
63 Walks (Single season record)
Only Spartan to start all 50 games.
The transfer student from Hillsborough Community College spent two years at The University of Tampa.
As a junior he was named Second-team all-SSC and was also declared a Jewish Sports Review Division II All-American.
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association also named him Division II second-team All-South Region.
He was also named to the Daktronics second-team All-South Region and was once named SSC Player of the week.
Schwartz also led the team with 58 RBI, 14 home runs and was second on the team with a .653 slugging percentage.
The six-foot tall 215 pound Montville N.J., native has said to have high hopes of being drafted to play professional baseball.
Head Coach Joe Urso believes that Schwartz is a professional hitter and he will get the chance to play at the next level.
The Spartans are set to be the No. 2 seed in the South Regional Tournament, but have an outside chance of hosting it.
They will however need some help from other teams in the region to take down the No. 3 ranked Southern Arkansas Muleriders (according to Ping!).
During the series sweep over Florida Southern College Schwartz set a new school record by being hit in three different at-bats. The previous record was two, held by 12 different players.
The single season walk record was set just a season ago by Jose Jimenez at 55.
Schwartz topped that total, and then some ending the regular season with 63 total.
Jimenez is now within the Los Angleles Angles organization after being selected in the 47th round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft (1,431 overall).