2025 - Sophomore (at Ohio)

• Named to 2024-25 Brooks Wallace Award Top 100 Watch List.
• Started all 26 games he appeared in.
• Slashed .252/.333/.459.
• Recorded five home runs, 19 runs, 28 hits, eight doubles, and 15 RBI.
• Tallied 42 putouts and a .992 fielding percentage.
• Hit home runs in three consecutive games from March 9-14.
• Went 3-for-5 with two doubles and a walk at Toledo (3/21/25).
• Season-high three hits, two stolen bases, and two runs at Toledo (3/21/25).
• Had two extra base hits and a stolen base vs. Dayton (3/18/25).
• Drove in a season-high three runs in the series finale versus Central Michigan (3/15/25).
• Went 3-for-4 with a home run against Central Michigan (3/14/25).

2024 - Freshman (at Ohio)

• MAC All-Defensive Team.
• Started 49 games, appearing in all but one contest in his first collegiate season.
• Slashed .312/.381/.377.
• Tallied 62 hits, 10 doubles, one home run, 13 RBI, 35 runs scored, and 12 stolen bases.
• Ranked first on the team in stolen bases, second in hits and doubles, and third in runs scored.
• Had 20 multi-hit games as a freshman.
• Hit 3-for-4 and scored a run at Virginia Tech (5/4/24).
• Notched his first career home run in the second inning at Ball State (3/30/24).
• Logged two doubles and went 3-for-5 at the plate with three RBI vs. Kent State (3/16/24).
• Went 3-for-4 with three runs scored, an RBI, and a walk in his college debut at Lipscomb (2/16/24).

HIGH SCHOOL

• Attended Adlai E. Stevenson High School.
• Played three years of varsity baseball.

PERSONAL

• Born on Aug. 23, 2004.
• Son of Rick, who wrestled at Minnesota State, and Cari Nelson.
• Chose Illinois because “it is close to home and always was a place I wanted to come play at growing up so close.”
• Pursuing a degree in communication.