NDSU

First-year performer who can play any position on the infield but is penciled in to start at first base...His 6-foot-2 frame is one of the tallest on the team outside of the pitching staff...2004 SEASON (REDSHIRT): Sat out the season as a redshirt in the Bison program...HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated in 2003 from Fargo North High, where he was a three-year starter in the infield for coach Jeff Fiechnter...Hit .490 as a senior with 48 RBIs...Team MVP, first team all-conference, and first-team all-state as a senior...North was state champion as a junior and runner-up as a senior...Played Legion baseball for Fargo Post 2 and now works as an assistant to his former head coach, Bill Ibach...Hit .373 with four home runs and 39 RBIs to help Fargo to a second-place state finish in 2003 and was Player of the Year in North Dakota...Produced a .349 average with 32 doubles, six home runs and 74 RBIs over a three-year Legion career...PERSONAL: Born Sept. 7, 1984...Major is undeclared...Worked on the NDSU grounds crew in addition to his Legion coaching job in the summer...Enjoys hunting and watching sports in his spare time...Family includes one brother, one sister, one stepbrother and one stepsister, all older...Son of Brenda Olney (Tom Pence) of Fargo and Jim Arnold (Anita Arnold) of Portal, N.D.