2024 Academic All-ACC
2023-24 ACC Academic Honor Roll
2024 (Freshman): Started 35 games and saw action in 50, playing mostly on the left side of the infield … hit .282 over 131 at bats in his first year on The Flats … hit five doubles, two home runs and drove in 25 RBI while scoring 27 times himself … enjoyed a breakout series against Youngstown State (March 8-10) batting .727 with a double, six runs scored and six RBI over the course of three games … set a career high with four hits in the second game of a doubleheader against YSU (March 9) after scoring a season-best three runs in the first game of the day (March 9) … hit his first-career home run in the series opener against NC State (March 15) … worked a pair of walks his first taste of NCAA Tournament play, including a five-pitch walk against Georgia in the ninth inning of the Regional Final.
High School: Rated as the No. 11-rated shortstop and No. 37 overall prospect out of Georgia by Perfect Game … A three-year letterwinner at Pope, playing middle infield … Helped lead Pope to state championship (in Truist Park) and region championship in 2022 … Named Cobb County Player of the Year, Region Player of the Year, first-team all-county, and first-team all-region in 2023 … Also Named to the Braves 400 Club Greater Atlanta High School All-Star Team in 2023 … Set the Pope single-season program record in hits, runs, triples in 2023 … Also set the Pope career triples record (2019-23).
Personal: Has one older brother … Grandfather, James Nevin Kerce, played professional baseball with Greenville Lions (1946-47), Montgomery Rebels (1948), and the Macon Peaches (Single A) in 1949 … Uncle, Timothy Wagner played baseball at Miami (Ohio) from 1996-2000.
