Luke Maile Class: Freshman Hometown: Crestview Hills, Ky. High School: Covington Catholic Height / Weight: 6-3 / 205 Position: C B/T: R/R

• 43rd round draft pick in 2009 (Red Sox)

Outlook
Highly-touted backstop will compete for playing time behind the plate ... Intelligent, competitive catcher, will bring tremendous athleticism, instincts and leadership to the position ... Will compete with Michael Williams and T.J. Daugherty to back up fifth-year senior Marcus Nidiffer ... Kentucky Mr. Baseball in 2009, was considered the top prospect in Kentucky as a high school senior, turning down the Red Sox, who drafted him in the 43rd round ... Name is pronounced MAY-lee.

High School
Kentucky Mr. Baseball in 2009 and first-team High School All-American by MaxPreps.com ... First-team All-State in 2008 and 2009 ... Owner of every offensive record in the history of Covington Catholic, with the expectation of at bats, ranking second ... Hit .514 with 12 homers as a senior ... Three-time Northern Kentucky Player of the Year ... A four-year baseball letterwinner for coach Bill Krumpelbeck ... Played basketball for four seasons and golf for two ... Member of the 1,000 point club in basketball ... Led baseball team to district championship 2007-09, finishing as region runner up in 2009 ... Hit .554 with seven homers and 40 RBI as a junior ... Batted .486 with eight homers and 66 RBI ... Has earned the Mt. St. Joseph College writing award and the Northern Kentucky University writing award ... Drafted in the 43rd round of the 2009 MLB Draft by the Boston Red Sox.

Personal
Full name is Luke Richard Maile... Son of Rich and Laurie Maile ... Has two brothers, Ben (15) and Jack (9), and two sisters, Abby (16) and Caroline (12) ... Father, Rich, played football at UK and grandfather, Dick, was an All-American basketball player at LSU.