Rutgers-Newark Athletics

Troy Longo capped a sterling four-year career at Rutgers-Newark by being named first team All-America by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) after a monster senior season.

The outfielder hit an incredible .485 with 63 runs batted in, 20 doubles and nine home runs while stealing 20 bases in 24 attempts. He drew 35 walks to up his on-base percentage to .596 and his 31 extra-base hits drove his slugging percentage to .877. The batting average and on-base percentage remain as program records while the RBI total still ranks second. The 62 hits were third in the R-N books while the doubles total was the third most in a season.

He was named to the All-New Jersey Athletic Conference first team in 2000.

Longo batted over .300 in each of his seasons, finishing with a .367 career average which ranks eighth in the R-N record book. He is fifth in career on-base percentage at .465 and ninth in slugging percentage at .610. He was first in doubles with 43, second in hits with 157 and RBIs with 131, fifth in stolen bases with 35, and seventh in home runs with 16 when he finished his four seasons in Scarlet & Black.

Longo earned his bachelor of arts in economics in 2002 while playing minor league baseball for the Cook County Cheetahs in Chicago and the Gateway Grizzlies in St. Louis from 2001 to 2003.

He works for Acqua Pools, a family business in Midland Park.