As A Redshirt-Senior (2023)
First-team all-conference selection … All-tournament team honoree … A-Sun all-academic team selection … Started all 60 games … Notched 71 hits while driving in 41 runs … Scored a team-high 80 times … Posted nine doubles, seven home runs and a triple while batting .307 … Had a team-high 55 walks … Tallied a .476 on-base percentage and a .446 slugging percentage … Tallied 23 multi-hit games, including a pair of four-hit contests … Drove in four against Florida State (March 5) and Jacksonville (April 2) … Scored four times against Stetson (May 7) … Belted a pair of round-trippers at North Alabama (March 24) … Recorded a season-best eight putouts at Florida State (March 5) … Sported a .984 fielding percentage.
As a Redshirt-Junior (2022) | Game-by-Game Stats
CoSIDA Third-Team Academic All-American
CoSIDA Academic All-District
All-ASUN Second Team
ASUN All-Academic Team
ASUN Player of the Week (2/28/22)
#39 Outfielder on D1Baseball Week 6 Positional Power Rankings
#67 Outfielder on D1Baseball Week 12 Positional Power Rankings
Started all 58 games for the Eagles... Hit .379 with six home runs, 25 doubles, 44 RBI, and 74 runs scored... Reached base in all 58 games and had an on-base percentage of .505, top-10 in the country... Hit a home run and scored two runs on opening day against Cincinnati (Feb. 18)... Notched two hits including a home run and drove in four against Minnesotata (Feb. 23)... Went 4-for-6 with a home run, two doubles, and six RBI against Bethune-Cookman (Feb. 25)... Had a 3-for-4 day while reaching base six times against Stetson (March 18) with five runs scored and two RBI... Hit a home run and had two hits against Miami (March 30)... Went 4-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored at Kennesaw State (May 7)... Hit a lead-off home run and scored two runs in 7-3 win on the road over #5 Miami... Went 3-for-5 with a double, an RBI, and three runs scored at North Florida (May 20)... Led the ASUN with 20 hit-by-pitches... Going back to last season, reached base in 69 straight games to set a new FGCU record... Named the first team captain in program history.
As a Redshirt-Sophomore (2021) | Game-by-Game Stats
All-ASUN First Team
Granted extra year of elgibility because of COVID-19... One of two Eagles to start all 48 games of the season... Led the ASUN in on-base percentage (.494)... Second in the ASUN in hitting (.361), walks (35), and hit-by-pitch (13)... Led the Eagles with 66 hits, 45 runs, and two triples... Hit three home runs and drove in 31 runs... Went 7-8 on stolen base attempts... Had 22 multi-hit games... Tallied a season-high four hits in win over Jacksonville (April 9)... Drove in four runs against Florida A&M (March 19)... Scored a season-high three runs against FAU on two seperate occasions (March 5, March 30)... Had a 12-game hitting streak during the season (March 5-March 26)
As a Redshirt-Sophomore [2020] | Game-by-Game Stats
Was one of four players who started all 16 games that the Eagles played … Led off for FGCU in every contest of the season … Was the only player on the team to reach base safely in all 16 games … Also led the team with a seven-game hitting streak … Turned in five multi-hit games … Paced the Eagles going seven-of-seven on the base paths, the third-most stolen bags of any player in the ASUN … His .493 on-base percentage was behind only one other player in the league … Accounted for one of the team’s two triples, which he cranked out during the victory over SJU (March 7) … Scored a team-high 12 runs throughout the season … Finished the year slashing .321/.429/.493 with four doubles, five RBI and a team-best 24 total bases.
As a Redshirt-Freshman [2019] | Game-by-Game Stats
Made 13 appearances, including four starts … Earned his first career start in left field during the game against Bethune-Cookman and scored his first career run (Feb. 15) … Tallied the first hit of his career, a double, in the win against Siena (March 2) … Also stole his first bag in that game … Finished the season with five runs scored and drew eight walks.
As a Freshman [2018]
Did not appear.
Before College
Played for coach Matt Cleveland at Hagerty High School … Rated a top-150 player in Florida and top-500 player nationally … Turned in a .414/.553/.606 slash line with 19 RBI and 13 extra-base hits his senior season … Collected 41 hits and scored 40 runs … Named 2017 First Team All-Conference and First Team All-Area … 2017 Perfect Game Honorable Mention All-American … Tabbed Second Team All-Conference in 2015-16 … Also named Second Team All-Conference in football … Made the Lamp of Knowledge list for turning in a GPA of 3.5 or higher from 2014-17.
Personal
Born Nov. 1, 1998 … Son of Ed and Dyann Ellis … Has three siblings – Jessica, Nicole and Eric … Chose FGCU because of the opportunity to get a quality education and be a part of the baseball program … Favorite athlete is Bryce Harper … Favorite sports movie is The Sandlot... Majoring in exercise science.
Updated 2/1/23
