at fau, widlansky saw playing time immediately as a freshman at third base, and ended up playing in 48 games for the season. highlights of his collegiate career include: an atlantic sun conference championship his freshman year, started all 60 of fau's games his sophomore year, a sun belt conference batting title his senior season (.430 average; breaking the school's season record), and sun belt player of the year, ncaa all-american honors, and first-team all-conference honors his senior season. he switched from third base to the outfield in 2007. in 2007, he also hit 15 home runs and had 69 rbis. in his four seasons at fau (2004–07), he batted .351 in 172 games with 27 home runs and 134 rbis.