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High School
Three-year varsity baseball letterwinner under head coach Todd Cook...logged a 2.59 ERA and 5-5 record his senior season, collecting 84 strikeouts while issuing just 10 walks in 56.2 innings; did not allow one home run against 266 batters faced; hurled four complete games in 11 starts as a senior; struck out 16 batters against CIF semifinalist Mater Dei...selected in the 24th round of the 2007 MLB Draft by the Baltimore Orioles...tallied a 1.40 ERA and 7-1 mark as a junior, recording 49 strikeouts to lead Servite to a share of the Serra League Championship; that season, posted a 5-0 record and 0.81 ERA in Serra League contests before being named Serra League MVP...earned second-team All-CIF Southern Section Division I honors and second-team All-Orange County accolades...compiled a .330 batting average as a junior and hit at a .313 clip his sophomore season...also excelled as the starting quarterback on the football team his sophomore, junior and senior seasons; three-year varsity letterwinner under head coach Troy Thomas...threw for 1496 yards and 12 touchdowns as a senior (111-for-171 passing); threw for 2005 yards and 16 touchdowns as a junior (146-for-235 passing)...earned offensive most valuable player honors in the Serra League as a junior and sophomore...threw for 1860 yards as a sophomore earning All-Serra League accolades; broke the single game completion percentage record (14-for-15) and the single season completion record...turned down several offers to play football at Pac-10 schools...a fine scholar-athlete, he received a prestigious Orange County scholar-athlete award after compiling a 3.4 GPA as an honor student at Servite.
Personal
Full name: Daniel Christopher Klein...born July 27, 1988 in Long Beach, Calif...Dan is the oldest of Chris and Teri Klein's three children...has one younger brother, Thomas, and one younger sister, Katie...undeclared major.