| JUNIOR COLLEGE: Transferred to Howard College in Big Spring, Texas, following a rookie season at the University of Texas in 2008 … Saw limited playing time in seven games with one at-bat and four runs scored
as a Longhorn … Projected starter in the outfield as a freshman playing for Coach Britt Smith’s Howard College Hawks in 2009.
HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letter-winner as an outfielder at Georgetown (Texas) High School … Coached by Danny Wallace … Served as team captain and piled up 52 hits, drove in 31 runs and pilfered 25 bases in helping
lead the Georgetown Eagles to the 2007 Class 5A Region II finals … Earned third-team all-state, first-team all-district and all-county honors as a senior in 2007 … Also a first-team all-district selection as
a junior on GHS’ 2006 bi-district championship team … An 11th-round
draft pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2007 MLB First-Year Player Draft … Played summer league baseball for the SLAM club baseball team in Austin … Coached by Tommy Boggs … Accorded Premier All-Star and Team
Texas honors while playing for Austin SLAM … Three-year letter-winner and two-time all-district selection in football as a running back in high school … Also a member of GHS’s 2006 regional qualifying 400-meter and 800-meter relay teams in track … Participated in Georgetown High School’s PALS program.
PERSONAL: Born Burundi Runey Davis on January 1, 1989 in Austin, Texas … Son of Mona Shields of Temple, Texas.
COHEN: “Runey was an impressive multi-sport athlete in an outstanding high school program in Texas. He possesses the speed and the quickness to cover a lot of ground in the outfield and can put pressure
on opposing defenses.”
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