BARCOMB - CLARKSON ATHLETIC HALL of FAME

Thanks to an uncanny batting eye and an unflappable approach at the plate, Tim Barcomb finished his collegiate career just one hit shy of the career triple crown for the Golden Knights, hitting .373/.463/.615 after four seasons. Though some of those numbers have since been surpassed, Barcomb still ranks among the all-time leaders in nearly every offensive category at Clarkson University.

The second of three brothers to play baseball for the Golden Knights, Barcomb joined the team as a sophomore and showed no rust from a year away from the game, hitting .373 with 12 extra-base hits while playing a solid third base. While his average fluctuated from year to year, it never dipped below .350 in any of his four seasons with Clarkson, and his sharp eye at the plate led to 77 career walks against only 29 strikeouts in 514 career plate appearances. The most impressive feat of his career likely came during his 2003 season, when he struck out just twice in 123 plate appearances (102 at bats), making him the hardest player in the nation to strike out that season. Barcomb accomplished that figure without sacrificing any power, as he slugged a team-best eight home runs that year as well, tied for the most by any Clarkson in a single-season. Three of those home runs came in a single game at Rensselaer on May 4, 2003, when he battered the (then) Red Hawks pitching staff to the tune of three long bombs and a double in a 14-8 victory.

A three-time Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association All-Star, Barcomb was also picked to the ABVCA/Rawlings All-Region team on three occasions. A stellar student-athlete, Barcomb also finished with a grade-point average just below 4.00 and was a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, one of only two athletes at Clarkson to be named Academic All-American on that many occasions.

Barcomb still ranks in the top 10- in program history in runs scored (118, second), hits (157, ninth), doubles (36, fifth), home runs (18, second), batting average (.373, third), and slugging percentage (.615, second), while his 131 runs batted in are still 12 more than any other player in Clarkson’s long history.