JUNIOR COLLEGE: Attended Pierce College in Lakewood, WA...Selected Second-Team All-NWAAC in 2000...Had a career batting average of .355...Played for coach Bryan Billings.

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Fife High School...Lettered all four years in baseball and football...Named Most Improved on team in 1994.

PERSONAL: Born July 17, 1978 in Great Falls, MT...Son of Bob and Karen Gonzales...Major is Secondary Education...Favorite non-sports related individual is Kevin Costner.