2025 (Senior): Played in 53 of the team’s 58 seasonal games with 48 starts, including 22 behind the plate and 26 at first base … Led the Catamounts in batting average at .340 (65-of-191) – the sixth-best in the SoCon – with a team-leading 19 doubles (3rd-most in the SoCon), a triple, and seven home runs, posting his single-season career highs in doubles and homers … Batted .349 as a catcher with 12 extra-base hits, and hit .327 when playing at first base with 15 extra-base hits … Had 18 multi-hit games and multiple RBIs 11 times … Batted .789 (15-of-19) with runners on third and less than two outs … Drove in 41 runs, including 16 with two outs … Drew 29 walks and was plunked three times as part of a .431 on-base percentage … Enjoyed a team-long 23-game reached base safely streak that included a career-long 12-game hitting streak … Started the season slow with just eight hits over his first 10 games before a 3-for-3, three RBI performance with a double and a home run at Georgia State (March 8) …
Hit for the cycle in WCU’s 13-6 regular-season finale win at UNCG (May 17) – finished 4-of-6 with four RBI, collecting a single in the first inning, a two-run home run in the second, a double to right field in the top of the sixth inning, and completed the feat with a two-run triple in the top of the ninth … It was just the fourth cycle for WCU since 2014 … Named
first-team All-Southern Conference at catcher … In the SoCon Tournament, batted 7-for-20 (.350) … Was selected as a
team captain for the 2025 season …
Selected to the 2025 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District team ...
Named to the Spring 2025 Academic All-Southern Conference team ...
Named to the 2024-25 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
2024 (Junior): Played in 49 of the team’s 54 games with 45 starts including 29 at first base and 16 behind the plate … Batted a career-best .290 (49-of-169) with 12 extra-base hits including career highs with eight doubles, a triple, and three home runs … Scored 31 runs while driving in 22 … Posted 10 multi-hit games with multiple RBI four times … Drew 14 walks and was plunked seven times … Coupled with the final two games of 2023, opened the year with a 13-game hitting streak including the first 11 games of 2024 … Hit .308 (12-of-39) during the opening 11 games with five extra-base hits including four doubles and a homer… Had two hits including a double and two RBI in the season-opener against Iona (Feb. 16) … Drove in a career-best four in a three-hit effort against Harvard (March 16) … Went 3-for-5 with a double at Gardner-Webb (April 2) … Collected three hits (3-for-4) with his first career triple at VMI (May 17) … Threw out seven would-be base stealers while also helping turn 28 double plays collectively with a .987 fielding percentage …
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 (Sophomore): Played in 51 of the team’s 54 games with 49 starts split between first base (26), catcher (19), left field (2), second base (1), and third base (1) … Batted .251 (47-for-187) with eight extra-base hits including six doubles and two home runs … Tallied 27 RBI including 12 with two outs … Finished with 12 multiple-hit games and six two-RBI performances … Added 27 walks and three HBPs as a part of his .353 on-base percentage … Made his WCU debut with a start in the outfield in the season-opener against Akron (Feb. 17) … Snapped an 0-for-13 slump to start the season with a solo home run in the third inning against Xavier (Feb. 26), representing both his first base hit and extra-base hit … Recorded a career-high four base hits twice – vs. VMI (April 6) and at ETSU (April 29) … Posted a season-long nine-game hitting streak in early-to-mid May … Delivered a game-tying single to left center against UNCG (May 24) in the SoCon Tournament as WCU pulled in front 3-2 before falling 4-3 to the Spartans ...
Named to the 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Western Carolina: Transferred from Winthrop ... Started 48 of the 51 games he saw action, batting .289 with 56 hits including 13 doubles and two home runs ... Posted 30 RBI and scored 28 runs ... Collected Big South Freshman of the Week honors in late February 2022, batting .571 (4-of-7) with three RBI, three runs, two doubles, four walks, and two HBPs in his collegiate debut against Eastern Michigan;
High School: Was a second-team All-State selection and first-team All-County as a senior at Brookwood High.
Personal: Is the son of Heather and Randy Spyke.
WCU Career Game Highs:
- At Bats: 6, four times - MR: vs. ETSU, SoCon (5/23/25)
- Hits: 4, three times - MR: at UNCG (5/17/25)
- Runs: 4, APPALACHIAN STATE (4/1/25)
- Doubles: 2, APPALACHIAN STATE (4/1/25)
- Triples: 1, twice - MR: at UNCG (5/17/25)
- Home Runs: 1, 12 times - MR: vs. The Citadel, SoCon (5/23/25)
- RBI: 4, twice - MR: at UNCG (5/17/25)
- Walks: 3, twice (MR: WOFFORD, 4/19/25)
- Hitting Streak: 12 games (2025)
