Prep: Lettered all four seasons for the Tigers...selected as the team captain during his senior season...named team MVP during his junior and senior season...named to the All-West Central Conference First Team all four years at BHS...was a three-time All-Western Illinois Region selection...garnered First Team All-State as a junior...was named the Jacksonville Journal Courier Player of the Year as a senior...holds the school career strikeout record (411) and wins (38) mark...played for head coach Robin Lewis at BHS...also lettered twice in football.

Personal: Born Tanner Wade Howell on September 21, 1990...the son of David and Mary Jo Howell...has one brother, Joe, and one sister, Whitney.