PRONUNCIATION: like FREEZE
2025 (Junior): Played in 57 of the team’s 58 total games with 57 combined starts – 30 in left field and 27 times at first base … Finished second on the team among the regulars with a .335 (76-of-227) batting average, tied for the team lead with 76 base hits, tied for the seventh-most in the SoCon … Recorded 21 extra-base hits including 11 doubles, a triple, and nine home runs … Was tied for second with two others with 47 combined RBI – t-15th in the SoCon – and was fourth on the team with 54 runs scored … Was second on the team with 24 multi-hit games – 15 two-hit efforts, eight three-hit, and one four-hit performance … Was tied for second with 13 multiple RBI efforts … Batted .377 (23-of-61) against left-handed pitching and was .513 (20-of-39) as a leadoff batter in an inning … Has a season-long 12-game hitting streak and a 15-game reached base safely streak during the season … Was a
preseason second-team All-SoCon selection by the league’s head coaches … Started the season on a 12-game seasonal hit streak (20-for-51, .392), which included seven multi-hit games … Doubled in the opener at Georgia Southern (Feb. 14) in the season opener … Homered twice in the three-game series against Maryland (Feb. 22-23) … Had a season-high and career-best tying four base hits (4-of-6) at Georgia State (March7) … Drove in a career-best five RBI against Eastern Illinois (March 15), finishing 2-for-3 a grand slam home run and a sacrifice fly … Hit .471 (8-of-17) with a double and a home run in the SoCon Tournament, scoring three runs with five RBI …
Selected to the 2025 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District team ...
Summer: Named to the Coastal Plain League All-Star game, playing for the Martinsville (Va.) Mustangs ...
DRAFTED by the Atlanta Braves in the 20th round with the 607th overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft ...
Named to the Spring 2025 Academic All-Southern Conference team ...
Named to the 2024-25 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
2024 (Sophomore): Played in 47 games with 41 starts including 38 starts in right field, twice as the designated hitter, and one start in left field … Posted a .290 seasonal batting average with 40 hits in 138 at-bats with nine extra-base hits – seven doubles and two home runs … Finished with 12 multi-hit games including eight with two hits, three hits three times, and a career-high four hits in a neutral field meeting with Western Michigan (March 10) at Fluor Field … Had seven multiple-RBI efforts among his 28 runs driven in, recording three sacrifice flies … Drew 34 walks and six HBPs as part of a .442 on-base percentage …Had a four-game hitting streak in early April and reached base safely in a career-best nine-straight … Hit his first collegiate home run against ETSU (March 23), adding a second round-tripper at Prasco Park against Akron (April 5) … Drew a career-high three walks twice – against UNCG (April 13) and at Wake Forest (May 4) …
Selected to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District team ...
Named to the Spring 2024 Academic All-Southern Conference team ...
Named to the 2023-24 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
2023 (Freshman): Played in 11 games as a true freshman with two starts – once in right field and once as the designated hitter … Batted .214 (3-for-14) with a double and two RBI … Made his collegiate debut with his first career start against Akron (Feb. 19) … Collected both his first collegiate base hit and first extra-base hit in his fourth career at-bat with a pinch-hit double down the right-field line in the seventh inning in a home win over Radford (March 19) … Drove in his first run on a bases-loaded HBP in the ninth inning of the 13-inning home loss to USC Upstate (April 4), drawing a career-best two walks as a part of three freebies in the game ...
Named to the 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Western Carolina: Played in 23 games as a senior, posting a .351 batting average with 20 hits including three doubles, three triples and a home run, according to data from MaxPreps … Also played basketball as a prep … Played travel ball with the Dirtbags Skrap Pak 17U.
Career Game Highs:
- At Bats: 6, twice – MR: at Georgia State (3/8/25)
- Hits: 4, twice – MR: at Georgia State (3/7/25)
- Runs: 3, three times – MR: at Mercer (3/28/25)
- Doubles: 1, 19 times (MR: vs. The Citadel (5/23/25)
- Home Runs: 1, 11 times – MR: vs. VMI (5/21/25)
- RBI: 5, vs. Eastern Illinois (3/15/25)
- Walks: 3, three times – MR: at UNCG (5/17/25)
