ELON, N.C. - Elon University Athletics and Verizon Wireless have teamed up to name a Verizon Wireless "Performer of the Month" each month. The recipient of this award for February is senior baseball player Grant Rembert (Hickory, N.C.).

In seven games in February, Rembert batted .455 (10-for-22). He currently leads the team with two homers. Rembert, Elon's rightfielder, has scored 11 runs and driven in another 10 so far this season, helping lead the Phoenix to a 6-3 overall record and a 3-0 Southern Conference ledger. Rembert has hit three doubles and legged out one triple thus far in his senior campaign. He also leads the squad in stolen bases, swiping seven of his eight attempts.

Following the first week of the season, Rembert was named The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Pro-Line Cap National Player of the Week after he batted .500 (4-for-8) with five runs scored, two doubles, a homer, six RBI, three walks, one hit by pitch and 3-for-4 in stolen base attempts in leading Elon to a three-game sweep of Southern Conference foe, Wofford. The Hickory, N.C., native collected nine total bases and finished with a 1.125 slugging percentage for the week and had a .667 on-base percentage. In the field, he recorded four putouts for a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage.

On behalf of Grant Rembert, Verizon Wireless will donate $250 to the Elon Athletics Foundation general scholarship fund.

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