Eastern Washington University Athletics

Career: Peatling was sidelined in 2018-19 with a foot injury when the Eagles were just 1-9, but after that Eastern was 38-17 (15-9 in 2018-19, 23-8 in 2019-20). Peatling played 118 games in his career to rank 10th in school history, and he became the 22nd player all-time at Eastern to hit the 1,000-point mark (he ranks 12th with 1,250). His .555 shooting percentage in his career ranks seventh, his 725 rebounds were sixth and his 112 blocked shots were second as he became the third Eagle in school history to hit the century mark in blocks. In his career (96 games as a starter), Peatling averaged 10.6 points, 6.1 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 0.9 blocked shots and 0.7 steals. He had 22 double-doubles in his career – including 14 as a senior with 11 in his last 15 games -- with a record of 20-2. He is just the sixth player in school history to have at least 1,000 points and 525 rebounds in his career. Coming to Eastern from Melbourne, Australia, Peatling is only the second player to couple that with 50 blocked shots. Fellow Australian Venky Jois had 1,803 points, 1,015 rebounds and 240 blocks in his career from 2013-16.
 
National Tournament Experience: He played as a freshman in the 2016-17 season against Wyoming in the College Basketball Invitational and scored four points, then had five points, five rebounds and a pair of assists versus Utah Valley in a repeat appearance in the CBI in 2018.
 
Big Sky Tournament Experience: He played in eight games in the Big Sky Tournament (seven as a starter), and averaged 23.4 minutes, 12.1 points and 5.4 rebounds with five assists, eight steals and five blocked shots. He scored 15 points and had four rebounds in the 2018 championship game versus Montana, and had 12 rebounds in a quarterfinal win over Portland State. He had eight points and six rebounds in his tourney debut against Sacramento State in a quarterfinal win in 2017.
 
Academic Accomplishments: He was selected on March 9 as a first team Academic All-America selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). The Big Sky Conference MVP was one of just 15 players in all of NCAA Division to be honored. He previously won Academic All-District VIII first team accolades to advance to the national ballot. Peatling is from Melbourne, Australia, and has a perfect 4.0 grade point average thus far while pursuing a graduate degree in business administration. He had a 3.89 GPA as an undergraduate and received his degree in finance. Tyler Harvey in 2015 is the only other first team Academic All-American the Eagles have had as a member of the NCAA. Rodney Stuckey was honored in 2007 as a second team selection, and Dave Henley (second team in 1982 and third team in 1981) was honored just before EWU moved to NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season. Peatling also earned Big Sky All-Academic honors for a fourth-straight season.
 
2019-20: Peatling capped a dominating run through the Big Sky Conference by being selected as the Most Valuable Player by the league’s 11 head coaches. He became the fifth Eagle to win the award in EWU’s 33 seasons as a member of the league. He went on to earn first team All-Region 6 honors from the National Association of Basktball Coaches. Peatling was one of three unanimous choices on the All-Big Sky first team, finishing the league season with averages of 18.5 points on 56 percent shooting from the field, 10.4 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.7 blocked shots and 0.8 steals. Peatling was the only player in the league to rank in the top 10 in league-games only in scoring, rebounding, assists, blocked shots and field goal percentage, and he ranked in the top six in each. Further, he is also the only player to average a double-double. Overall, Peatling was 55th in NCAA Division I in rebounding (9.1 to rank second in the league behind Aiken) and 29th in offensive rebounds per game (league-leading 3.42). He had 14 double-doubles to rank 26th nationally and lead the Big Sky. He had 11 double-doubles in his last 15 games as he joined Alvin Snow (2004), Rodney Stuckey (2006), Jacob Wiley (2017) and Bogdan Bliznyuk (2018) as MVP choices from EWU. He averaged 17.2 points, 9.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.5 blocks on the season, including a pair games in which he came three assists from a triple double. The first came in an 89-84 win over Northern Colorado on Jan. 27, finishing with 21 points and 22 rebounds – second most in school history -- seven assists and three blocked shots. The other performance came on March 5 when he finished with 16 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists. That gave him the 12th and 13th performances in school history to come within a combination of three points/rebounds/assists from a triple double, in addition to the lone triple double in school history.Those games were part of a stretch of 11 double-doubles in 15 games, including five in a row from Feb. 8 to Feb. 22 in which he averaged 23.4 points, 11.2 rebounds and 4.4 assists.  Peatling hit a significant milestone on Jan. 25, hitting the 1,000-point mark in his career in an 81-78 overtime home victory over Southern Utah. He finished that game with 30 points, 11 rebounds, five blocked shots and five assists. His 54 points against Multnomah on Dec. 13 broke a nearly 50-year conference record of 53 points and shattered the previous school record of 45. His 24 field goals made were league and EWU records, and his 30 attempts were the most all-time at Eastern as he earned the first of his four Big Sky Player of the Week accolades. He also had 13 rebounds and four assists to finish with his first double-double of the season. He was one of the team’s co-captains for the 2019-20 season, as well as Jacob Davison and Kim Aiken Jr. Peatling was eventually selected as the team MVP in 2019-20.
 
2018-19: Earned Big Sky Conference All-Academic honors for the third year. He concluded his third year as an Eagle by being selected to the All-Tournament team at the Big Sky Conference Tournament in Boise, Idaho. He averaged a team-high 20.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and had four assists, three blocks and three steals. Earned second team All-Big Sky honors as selected by the league’s head coaches. After missing EWU's first 10 games with an injury – and two more at mid-season -- Peatling was EWU's leading scorer in nine of the 22 games he played (13-9 record), and also led in rebounds eight times. He hit double figures in scoring 17 times (five with at least 20) and had at least 10 rebounds four times. An honorable mention All-Big Sky selection as a sophomore, Peatling averaged 15.3 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.7 blocks in the 18 league games he played, and 14.7 points and 7.2 rebounds overall while shooting at a 57.8 percent clip. In league games only, he was seventh in the league in scoring (15.3), fifth in shooting (58.6 percent) and fourth in rebounding (7.2), but didn’t rank among the overall league leaders (a player must play in 75 percent of a team's games to be ranked). Peatling scored at least 20 points three of his last four games, including 20 with seven rebounds in a 77-61 victory over Southern Utah (3/15/19) in the semifinals of the Big Sky Conference Tournament. One game earlier versus Montana State (3/14/19) he had a career-high 28 points with 14 rebounds and two blocked shots for his third double-double of the season and eighth of his career. He had 23 against Weber State (3/9/19) to end the regular season (he had a career-high 25 in an earlier meeting). Eastern won that game 80-77 to wrap-up third place in the league standings. Peatling had a double-double against Idaho (2/18/19) with 16 points and 13 rebounds, achieving double figures in each just 16:09 into the game. He had a near double-double of 24 points and eight rebounds in an 88-78 victory over Northern Colorado (2/16/19), sinking 11-of-15 shots from the field in the game and scoring 20 of his points after intermission. He had 16 points and seven rebounds against Montana (2/9/19), and before that had an eight-point, 10-rebound effort at Montana State (2/7/19). He had his first double-double of the season versus Sacramento State (1/26/19) when he had 17 points and 13 rebounds on 7-of-12 shooting before fouling out after playing just 25 minutes. One game earlier he had a 15-point performance at Portland State (1/24/19) in which he sank 7-of-10 shots from the field and grabbed eight rebounds before fouling out. He had one of six double-figure performances for the Eagles when the Eagles beat preseason favorite Montana (1/10/19) 78-71 at Reese Court in Cheney. He sank 6-of-8 shots from the field and 5-of-6 free throws in just 20 minutes because of foul trouble to finish with a team-high 17 points. Versus Northern Colorado (1/7/19) he finished with 19 points on 9-of-14 shooting from the field, plus had nine rebounds, two assists, two steals and two assists. He made his season debut as a starter versus Corban (12/21/18) in a 92-73 Eagle win. He played 18 minutes and finished with four points on 2-of-6 shooting, seven rebounds and four assists. He followed that with a career-high 25 against Weber State (12/29/18) in an 84-72 loss, making 9-of-17 shots from the field with a trio of 3-pointers made in four attempts. He also had six rebounds – five on the offensive end – and a pair of assists. He eclipsed his previous high of 19 versus South Dakota and Montana State in the 2017-18 season. Peatling then scored 16 in a 65-55 win over Idaho State (12/31/18). He was 7-of-9 from the field and also had eight rebounds, three assists, two steals and two blocked shots against ISU. He had a key three-point play with 2:53 left to give EWU its biggest lead of the game at the time.
 
2017-18: Earned honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference honors as chosen by the league’s head coaches. Was also named to the Big Sky All-Academic team for a second time. For the season, Peatling averaged 7.7 points in 31 games (26 as a starter), and averaged 5.6 rebounds (17th in the Big Sky) and 1.2 blocked shots per game (fifth). He hit double figures in scoring 11 times in 2017-18 (15 in his career), and rebounding six times both as a sophomore and in his career. His averages were 8.7 points, 7.4 rebounds (seventh) and 1.5 blocks (fourth) in conference play, with five double-doubles (4-1 record). During Eastern’s eight-game winning streak from Feb. 15 to March 9, Peatling averaged 9.5 points and 7.4 rebounds on 34-of-53 shooting from the field (64.2 percent). In the seventh game, a victory over Portland State (3/8/18) in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Tournament, he had 12 rebounds, a career-high four blocked shots, two steals and six points. The next night, in a semifinal win over Southern Utah (3/9/18), he finished with nine points and three steals, but just one rebound while playing just 16 minutes because of foul trouble. He provided some big games after joining the starting lineup in early January, and put together a stretch of three-straight double-doubles from Jan. 20 to Jan. 27. He had a career-high 19 points and 13 rebounds in an 84-79 win over Montana State (2/17/18), then had another with 11 points and 10 boards in Eastern’s regular season finale versus Northern Arizona (3/3/18). In a win over Northern Colorado (1/27/18) he had 17 points and a career-high 15 rebounds, making 6-of-11 shots from the field and finishing with two blocked shots. Peatling had the first double-double of his career with 10 points and 10 rebounds in EWU’s overtime loss at Southern Utah (1/20/18), then had 11-11 versus North Dakota (1/25/18).
 
2016-17: Earned Big Sky All-Academic honors for the first time. Peatling made his starting debut versus 17th-ranked Xavier (12/20/16) and started 17 total games. He averaged 4.0 points and 3.0 rebounds, with a high of 13 points at Montana (1/26/17) and highs of nine rebounds and three blocked shots versus Idaho (12/30/16). He also had seven points versus the Vandals and made 54.4 percent of his shots from the field for the season (56-of-103) and 36.7 percent of his 3-pointers (11-of-30). He was in the starting lineup from Dec. 20 to Feb. 9, helping Eastern go 8-6 in those 14 games. He made his 16th start of the season in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Tournament against Sacramento State (3/9/17) and had eight points and six rebounds on 3-of-4 shooting from the field and 2-of-3 from the free throw line. He had scored only four total points in his previous seven games. He closed the season by scoring four points against Wyoming (3/15/17) in the College Basketball Invitational.
 
High School/Club: Attended high school at Beaconhills College in Berwick (near Melbourne). In February 2016, Peatling helped the Victoria Navy U20 men’s team in becoming national champions in the Australia Junior Championships. He played from 2013-15 for the Dandenong Rangers in the South East Australian Basketball League. That was the same club that former Eagle Venky Jois played for prior to coming to Eastern in the fall of 2012. Eastern teammate Jack Perry and former Eagle Michael Wearne also played for Dandenong. At the U23 Victorian Youth Championship in 2015, Peatling was chosen as the Youth League Rookie of the Year after helping his team to a silver medal. He averaged 13.8 points, 7.9 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 1.8 blocked shots and 1.0 steals, including 22 points, 13 rebounds and three blocked shots in the Grand Final. During the 2015 league season, he averaged 4.4 points and 3.2 rebounds while making 47 percent of his field goal attempts, and had a high game of 19 points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots. Dandenong also finished as the runner-up for the U20 Australia Day Tournament in 2015. Also in 2015, Peatling was a late addition to the roster for Vic Metro, which went on to win the U20 Australian National Junior Championships. He played in six of eight games with a high outing of eight points and five rebounds. While playing in 2015 for his high school team, Beaconhills College, he was team captain and helped lead his team to a South Eastern Independent Schools regional championship. In 2014, he was a team captain in helping Dandenong finish third in the U18 Australian National Junior Classic Tournament. He also helped his team win the regular season title in the Victorian Basketball League and a runner-up finish at the Victorian Championship. In 2013, he was the MVP in helping Dandenong win the gold medal at the Victorian Championship Reserve tournament.
 
Personal: He had a near-perfect 3.97 grade point average through winter quarter 2020 while pursuing a graduate degree in business administration. Peatling had a 3.89 GPA as an undergraduate and received his degree in finance. Born March 31, 1997. He and his wife, the former Laura Burdack from Melbourne, Australia, were married in February, 2016. Parents are Marcus and Susie Peatling. Fellow Australians playing for the Eagles include Jack Perry and Tyler Robertson, as well as former Eagles Jesse Hunt, Felix Von Hofe, Geremy McKay, Michael Wearne and former EWU all-time leading scorer Venky Jois.

 

Year	GP	GS	Min	Avg	FG	FGA	Pct	3FG	3FGA	Pct	FT	FTA	Pct	Off	Def	Tot	Avg	PF	FO	Ast	TO	Blk	Stl	Pts	Avg
2016-17	34	17	525	15.4	56	103	.544	11	30	.367	14	25	.560	31	71	102	3.0	67	2	23	20	13	12	137	4.0
2017-18	31	26	644	20.8	95	181	.525	5	21	.238	44	71	.620	64	111	175	5.6	104	8	20	27	37	28	239	7.7
2018-19	22	22	608	27.6	133	227	.586	12	28	.429	62	89	.697	67	98	165	7.5	71	5	34	39	16	22	340	15.5
2019-20	31	31	953	30.7	209	377	.554	21	65	.323	95	147	.646	106	177	283	9.1	108	10	99	70	46	23	534	17.2
TOTAL	118	96	2730	23.1	493	888	.555	49	144	.340	215	332	.648	268	457	725	6.1	350	25	176	156	112	85	1250	10.6

 
SINGLE-GAME HIGHS
Points: 54, Multnomah -- 12/13/19
Rebounds: 22, Northern Colorado -- 01/27/20
Assists: 7, Northern Colorado -- 01/27/20 ; Idaho State -- 03/05/20
Steals: 3, 4 times
Blocks: 5, Southern Utah -- 01/25/20
FG made: 24, Multnomah -- 12/13/19
FG attempts: 30, Multnomah -- 12/13/19
3FG made: 4, Sacramento St. -- 02/20/20
3FG attempts: 6, Sacramento St. -- 02/20/20 ; Belmont -- 11/26/19 ; Nebraska Omaha -- 12/17/19
FT made: 12, Idaho -- 02/13/20
FT attempts: 14, Idaho -- 02/13/20