2024: 2024 ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Finalist ... 2024 MVC Baseball Defensive Player of the Year … 2024 MVC Baseball All-Conference Second Team selection … 2024 MVC Baseball All-Defensive Team selection … Led the MVC in putouts (566) … Eighth in the MVC in fielding percentage (.993) … Second in the MVC in caught stealing by (14) … Second in the MVC in runners picked off (3) … Lined up and played in 58 games while earning 57 starts at catcher in the 2024 season … Recorded a .281 batting average with 65 hits in 231 at-bats … Connected on 16 extra-base hits including nine doubles, a triple, and a home run … Scored 34 runs and drove in 46 RBIs … Drew 11 walks and was hit by five pitches … Recorded a .327 on-base percentage and a .407 slugging percentage … Connected on one sacrifice fly and one sacrifice bunt … Was 1-for-2 in stolen base attempts … Posted a .993 fielding percentage over 615 chances … Recorded 16 multi-hit games and was third on the team with 13 multi-RBI contests … Season-high 17-game hitting streak and on-base streak running from May 3 – June 2 … Homered in six different games coming against Illinois, Purdue, Illinois State, Southern Illinois (twice), and Evansville … Went 3-for-4 with a double, home run, two runs scored and five RBIs against Southern Illinois on April 27 … 3-for-5 with a home run, a run, and three RBIs against Illinois State on April 21.
2023: 2023 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division I Gold Glove winner … 2023 MVC Defensive Player of the Year … 2023 MVC Tournament All-Tournament team … MVC All-Conference First Team … MVC All-Defensive Team … Lined up in 60 games in the 2023 season earning 57 starts … Was Indiana State’s primary catcher of the 2023 season … Finished the year with a .262 batting average with 54 hits over 206 at-bats … Connected on 13 doubles and two home runs … Scored 23 runs and drove in 38 RBIs … Drew 18 walks and was hit by five pitches … Posted a .332 on-base percentage and a .354 slugging percentage … Was 4-for-6 in stolen base attempts … Recorded a .995 fielding percentage with 483 putouts and 61 assists while committing three errors … Threw out 19 runners attempting to steal and added five pickoffs … Recorded a 47.5% caught stealing rate … Connected on 13 multi-hit games … Second on the team with 10 multi-RBI contests … Season-high eight-game hitting streak from May 24 – June 4 … Finished the season on a 10-game on-base streak … Season-high three hits in four separate games coming at Memphis (Mar. 11), against Valparaiso (Mar. 25), against Murray State (May 13), and against Evansville (May 26) … Connected on a grand slam on March 10 against Memphis … Added four RBIs on May 24 against UIC … Homered at UIC on March 31 … Clutch hitting at the NCAA Regionals with seven RBI over the three wins against Wright State and Iowa (twice) … Added a single and an RBI in the Super Regionals at TCU.
2022
- 2022 Missouri Valley Baseball All-Defensive Team selection
- Top 250 MLB D1Baseball Draft Prospect Preseason List
- 108th in the NCAA in sacrifice flies (5)
- Led the MVC in runner pickoffs (6) and finished third in caught stealing (12)
- Finished ninth in the MVC in putouts (315)
- Lined up in 40 games with 35 starts primarily at catcher in the 2022 season
- Finished the year with a .295 batting average with 39 hits in 132 at-bats
- Recorded seven extra-base hits (six doubles, one home run)
- Finished with 26 RBI and 15 runs scored in 2022
- Posted a .364 slugging percentage and a .329 on-base percentage
- Finished 3-for-4 in stolen base attempts on the year
- Recorded 11 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI contests on the year
- Recorded four three-hit games on the year against Merrimack (Feb. 25), Minnesota (Feb. 26), Kansas (Mar. 19), and Missouri State (May 1)
- Homered against Kansas on March 19
- Finished the year with a .994 fielding percentage over 350 chances (315 putouts, 33 assists)
2021
- Lined up in 32 games earning 27 starts in the 2021 season
- Finished the year with a .284 batting average with 27 hits in 95 at-bats
- Posted two doubles and scored 15 runs while driving in 14 RBI
- Drew 15 walks and was hit by a pitch
- Was 3-for-5 in stolen base attempts on the year
- Recorded seven multi-hit games and four multi-RBI contests
- Was 2-for-5 with two runs scored and a double against SIU on May 29
- Was 3-for-6 with two RBI against Dallas Baptist on May 30
- Was 2-for-4 with four RBI on June 4 against Georgia Tech
- Was 3-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored on May 8 against Missouri State
2020
Season cut short due to COVID-19 ... Was a standout freshman, starting all 14 games behind the plate for the Sycamores ... Recorded 11 hits in 47 at bats for a .234 batting average ... Earned three walks and held a .280 on-base percentage ... Four of his 11 hits were doubles, raising his slugging percentage to .319 ... Drove in four runs and scored seven runs ... Had two multi-hit games ... Went for a season high two hits against Kansas (3/7) ... Recorded doubles in three-straight games during a weekend sweep of Elon ... Drove in a season high two runs at Elon (3/1).
Prior to Indiana State
Played four years of prep baseball at Mountain Vista High School in Colorado under head coach Ron Quintana ... Helped lead the Golden Eagles to three state tournament appearances and a state championship in 2018 ... Earned First Team All-State in 2019 and Second Team All-State in 2018 ... Also played basketball during his freshman year.
