Matt Eisenberg, Juniata College
Baseball, Football – Class of 2001
Matt Eisenberg is Juniata’s all-time career leader in receiving yards (3,500), touchdown reception (38), and all-purpose yardage (5,421). He also ranks second on the Juniata’s all-time leaderboard in career receptions (203) and scoring (252 points). Eisenberg holds Juniata single-game records in scoring, receiving yards, and touchdown receptions, as well as single-season marks in receptions, receiving yards, touchdown receptions, all-purpose yards, and all-purpose yards per game. He is the only player in Juniata history to haul in more than 300 yards receiving in a single game – having accomplished the feat twice during the 1999 season, and is one of only two players to score more than 30 points in a single game.
Eisenberg earned First Team All-America honors from Don Hansen’s Football Gazette in 1999, and was a Second Team All-American on the Hewlett-Packard squad. He was the 1999 MAC Player of the Year, and was an All-MAC honoree in both 1999 and 1998.
On the baseball field, Eisenberg graduated as the program’s all-time career hits leader with 173 – he still ranks third among career leaders – and was Juniata’s career at bats leader with 500. He currently ranks seventh among all-time runs leaders with 113, and is second in career
triples with 14. Eisenberg’s six triples in 1998 tied a school record, eclipsed by David Saintz’s
Eisenberg was inducted into the Juniata College Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.
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