2024, 2025 Academic All-ACC
2023-24, 2024-25 ACC Academic Honor Roll
2025 (Sophomore): Enjoyed a breakout 2025 season, setting career marks in every offensive category and proving to be one of the best infielders in the Atlantic Coast Conference…Played in all 60 games, making 59 starts, mostly at 3rd base (44 at 3rd, 10 at 2nd and five at SS)…Slashed .313/.411/.475 over 198 at-bats including 20 doubles, helping Georgia Tech lead the nation in doubles (149) and be the only Power 4 program with three players at 20 or more doubles – Kerce (20), Kyle Lodise (20) and Drew Burress (23)…settled in as a consistent contact bat in the lower half of the order, delivering a career-best 48 runs and finishing with 40 RBI…Showed a considerable improvement with his eye at the plate, taking 32 walks and striking out 37 times, just one more than his freshman season despite 67 more at-bats…His 114 assists were second-most on the team behind the everyday shortstop and 3rd-round MLB Draft pick Kyle Lodise…Delivered a team-high five three-hit games and finished fourth on the team with 13 multi-RBI performances including a pair of 4 RBI days against Western Michigan (March 2) and Pitt (March 14)…Enjoyed a career-long on-base streak of 20 games (Feb. 28-April 1) and reached base successfully in all three of Tech’s games in the Oxford Regional…On the defensive side, he led the ACC in defensive runs saved, finishing 5th in the nation.
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.
