Former Coppin State baseball and basketball standout Danny Singletary has signed a free agent baseball contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Singletary, a native of Paterson, N.J., earned his chance to play professionally with an impressive workout in a tryout at Fordham University on May 17.
The outfielder, who graduated from Coppin earlier this month with a degree in criminal justice, will be heading to Tucson, Ariz., this week to begin extended spring training. According to a spokesman for the organization, Singletary will likely be sent to Alberta, Canada, to play for Lethbridge of the Pioneer League.
Singletary, who transfered to Coppin in 1995 after spending two years at Ohio Valley College in West Virginia, had a .360 career batting average in two seasons, and in 1996 he hit .404 with a school-record 48 runs batted in. He was a first-team All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) outfielder in both 1996 and 1997 and was a member of the MEAC All Tournament team in 1996. Also an outstanding basketball player, Singletary did not play baseball this past season because he had used all of his eligibility.
On the basketball court, Singletary, who walked on the basketball team in 1996, is best remembered for his outstanding performance in Coppin's upset of sixth-ranked South Carolina in the 1997 NCAA Tournament. He scored a game-high 22 points and had five steals against the Gamecocks' trio of All-SEC guards, as Coppin became the first MEAC school and only the third No. 15 seed to win an NCAA tournament game. He finished his career ranked seventh in all-time steals (140) at Coppin after only two seasons.
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