Amateur Career
Bourn was raised in Houston, where he played on the same Little League team as Carl Crawford. At the age of 10, his father had him facing 85-mile-per-hour pitching in a batting cage.
Bourn attended Nimitz High School in Houston. He earned a scholarship to play college baseball at the University of Houston for the Houston Cougars baseball team, competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. He played with the Cougars for three seasons. While he displayed little power, collecting only two home runs and 23 extra-base hits in 644 at-bats, he won attention from professional scouts by posting a .431 on-base percentage and stealing 90 bases in 119 attempts.
He was named to the All-Tournament Team at the 2002 Conference USA Baseball Tournament, in which Houston was the runner-up.
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