CAREER: Set a new save record (10) in the Clark Griffin Summer League for the Bethesda Big Train
HIGH SCHOOL: All-County and second team All-Metro as a senior for head coach Terry Terrill at Riverdale Baptist High School...Team MVP as a senior...All-County selection as a junior...Member of the Maryland State Private School champions as a sophomore and junior... As a senior he hit .420 and compiled a 0.98 earned run average...lettered in baseball, cross country and soccer...transferred to ODU from Clemson.
PERSONAL: Born on July 12, 1980....Parents are Tom and Pat Sweeney...Has four brothers, Jay, Chad, Lee and Devin and one sister, Kaitlin...Father played baseball at Maryland...Brother, Devin played baseball at Palm Beach Atlantic
Major: undecided
Favorite Book: "A Tale of Two Cities"
Nickname: Buck/ J.D.
Hobbies: listening to heavy metal music.