Valley Central: Played two years with the varsity team for coaches Eric Bartle and Trevor Purcell...Posted a 6-2 record with a 3.00 earned run average...Earned the Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Weber Scholarship Award and the S. John Marone Memorial Scholarship...Received Student Achievement Recognition for physics.

Personal: Son of Susan and David Ackerman...Business administration major...Played with the Newburgh Nuclears.