University of Arizona Athletics

Before Arizona
Spent the 2016 season playing for Coach Jeff Johnson at Chipola Junior College in Florida…Pitched 72 1/3 innings, going 7-1 with a 2.49 ERA and 86 strikeouts…Allowed just 46 hits, 22 walks and 20 earned runs…Named First-Team All-Panhandle Conference…Member of the Dean’s List…Pitched at Chattahoochee Valley Junior College in 2015 and went 8-4 with a 2.27 ERA, before transferring to Chipola…Earned varsity letters for Coach Kyle Reese at Mount Paran Christian School in Kennesaw, Georgia…Pitched 33 2/3 innings as a senior, posting 41 strikeouts and a 5-2 record to go with a 3.53 ERA…Also batted .393 in 84 at-bats.
 
Personal
Is the son of Lee Ann Samples and Steven Faulkner…Has one brother, Larson…Majoring in Sports and Society…Chose Arizona because “we have the best coaching staff in the nation and this place will help me develop into the best baseball player I can be.”