A two-time first team all-WIAC and all-region player, Brad O’Connell is the only Blue Devil baseball player to earn first team All-America honors when he led the country in batting average (.524) in 2001. The 2001 WIAC baseball player of the year, O’Connell had 12 home runs with a slugging percentage of .984. O’Connell had a 37-game hitting streak that stretched from 2000 into the 2001 season, still the longest in WIAC history. For his career, O’Connell holds school record batting average of .422 and a school record slugging percentage of .810. His school record nine career triples was surpassed by his younger brother, Brandon, who has 10. O’Connell is tied for the school career record in home runs with 30 and is second all-time in stolen bases with 43.