University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2007: Honorable Mention All-Ivy ... Pitched in 14 games and started 11 ... Went 4-2 on the season in 64 1/3 innings pitched ... Finished second in the Ivy League, holding opponents to just a .232 batting average ... Went 4-0 with a 3.15 ERA and 40 innings pitched in six Ivy League starts ... Came within one out of pitching his second complete game of the season against Princeton, going 8 2/3 innings and striking out six (4/21) ... Allowed just two runs and scattered five hits over seven innings in a 5-4 victory at Cornell (4/14) ... Hurled his first complete game, giving up just one run in nine innings in a 9-1 win at Yale (4/7) ... Threw seven hitless innings and allowed just three runs against Harvard (3/31) ... Tossed seven innings and allowed just one run at Georgetown (3/18) ... Allowed just one run in five innings of work in his first collegiate start against St. Bonaventure (3/4). 

High School: 24th-round draft pick of the Washington Nationals in the June 2006 Major League Baseball free agent draft ... Lettered three years in baseball and two in basketball ... Named 2006 Second-Team All-South Jersey and All Tri-County Conference and All SJ Group 2 ... Named Second-Team All-Tri-County Conference and All South Jersey Group 2 in 2005 ... National Honor Society member.

Personal: Born Aug. 2, 1988 in Voorhees, N.J. ... Sister, Krystle, plays field hockey at Fairleigh Dickinson University and sister, Kim, plays softball at Caldwell College ... Son of Jim and Kim Birmingham ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.