A heads-up player who does all the little things that contribute to a winning program, Shawn Park proved to be an offensive sparkplug and a defensive mainstay for the Scarlet Raptors in his first year with the Rutgers-Camden baseball program.

        Park, a transfer from Camden County College, hit .272 with seven RBIs as a junior infielder with the Scarlet Raptors in 2007. He started 27 of his 30 games, including 19 at shortstop and four each at second and third bases. He led the team with 10 HBP, was third on the squad with 17 walks, tied for third with 20 runs scored and was third among all regulars with a .423 on-base percentage. His 10 HBP was the 10th-highest single-season total in program history and was only three shy of the club record.

        Defensively, Park paced the Scarlet Raptors with 67 assists and tied for fourth on the team with eight double plays.

        Not only was Park among the Raptors’ leaders, he was among the New Jersey Athletic Conference’s top players in several categories. His 10 HBP tied him for fifth in the NJAC, while his 0.57 walks per game placed him 13th. He also tied for 19th in the conference with his 67 assists.

        Park made an impact from the start, going 2-for-3 with one run, one walk and a pair of hit by pitches in his first game at Rutgers-Camden, a contest at Hampden-Sydney College Feb. 23. That game sparked his season-opening three-game hitting streak (4-for-8, five runs, one RBI) and led to an impressive start. In his first 14 games, Park had hitting streaks of three, four and five games.

        The big game in Park’s five-game hitting streak came against McDaniel College (March 12), in which he went 4-for-4 with a double, a walk and four runs scored.

        Overall, Park collected seven multi-hit games in 2007, the fifth-highes t total on the Scarlet Raptors.

        Park had a phenomenal sophomore season at Camden County College in 2006, when he was the leading National Junior College Athletic Association Division III hitter in the country with a .530 batting average. He earned NJCAA All-Region 19 First Team and Garden State Athletic Conference First Team honors, and then was named to the NJCAA Div. III All-America Third Team.

        Overall, Park went 44-for-83 in 28 games, collecting five doubles, two triples, one home run and 29 RBIs. He was successful on all five of his stolen base attempts.

        A 2004 graduate of St. Joseph High School in Hammonton, Park earned eight varsity letters for the Wildcats, with four apiece in baseball and cross country. He captured Cape-Atlantic League National Division Honorable Mention recognition as a senior in 2004. He also was a member of the National Honor Society at St. Joseph.

        A Criminal Justice major at Rutgers-Camden who plans to become a state trooper, Shawn is the son of Earl and Lori Park of West Berlin.