AT SJSU: Played in 85 games and made 73 starts as an outfielder and designated hitter during a two-year Spartan career...a career .253 hitter, scored 40 runs and had 32 RBI...finished with a .975 fielding percentage with 186 putouts and 10 outfield assists...An Academic All-WAC athlete in 2012.
2013: Played in 53 games and started 48 as an outfielder...batted .251 with 17 RBI and scored 27 runs...tied for second on the team with 13 doubles...had a career day on April 7 in a win over Louisiana Tech where he went 3-for-5 with five RBI and scored a run while blasting his first home run as a Spartan...finished with nine multi-hit games...hit .361 with 10 RBI and five runs while on a career-long nine-game hitting streak (4/7-4/23)...scored the go-ahead run in SJSU's win over CSU Bakersfield on the final day of the regular season to clinch a spot in the WAC Tournament...scored the tying run in the ninth inning of an eventual comeback-win at Sacramento State...11-29 (.379) with seven runs over the final seven games of the regular season.
2012: Named Academic All-WAC...Appeared in 32 games with 25 starts in the outfield...Went 2-for-3 with an RBI in the Spartans[apos] 7-3 win at San Francisco on Feb. 19, his first career start as a Spartan...Hit .257 for the season with two triples, 15 RBIs and 13 runs scored...Drove in two runs at No. 10 Stanford on April 17, including the game-winning RBI in the eighth inning to help the Spartans defeat the Cardinal for the first time in four years...Had a season-long six-game hitting streak from April 28-May 6, batting .381 with a double, three runs scored and four RBIs...Hit safely in 11 of 12 games from April 17-May 6 with five multi-hit games and three multi-RBI performances...Posted a five-game hitting streak from April 17-24 and batted .474 (9-for-19) with six RBIs and three runs scored...Batted .302 as a leadoff hitter, and was nearly perfect (6-for-7) with a runner on third and less than two outs.
CABRILLO COLLEGE: Was an all-conference player for Coach Rob Kittle at Cabrillo College...Led the team with a .362 batting average, .480 slugging percentage and 22 RBIs in 2011...Also had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 86 chances as an outfielder that season.
CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL: A 2009 graduate of Carmel High School in Carmel, Calif....A three-time letterwinner (Coach Michael Kelly)...Hit .466 with a .517 slugging percentage his senior year of 2009...Also hit .318 with a .514 slugging percentage and stole 15 bases in 2008.
MICHAEL: Majoring in sociology...Enjoys playing video games...A native of Berkeley, Calif., Michael Charles Gerlach was born March 6, 1991.