2019 Baseball

1 Simon Whiteman

  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 165
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Trumbull, CT
  • Highschool Fairfield Prep

Biography

2018: Named Second Team All-Ivy...Named 2018 Google Cloud Academic First Team All-American...Led the Bulldogs in at bats (178) and hits (53), and finished second in RBI (31) and stolen bases (9)...Led the Ivy League in sac bunts (10)...Made the switch from second base to shortstop and made only 5 errors in 197 total chances (.975 fielding percentage)...Named Ivy League Player of the Week on March 5 after going 7 for 14 and reaching base nine times in three games at No. 14 Virginia.

2017: Named Second Team All-Ivy... Named New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association Division I All-New England Third Team... Hit .316 (24 for 76) in 18 Ivy League games... Tied for second on the team in home runs (3) and RBI (14) in league games... Went 2 for 5 with a run scored in the Ivy League Championship clinching 11-7 win over Penn on May 16... Blasted two home runs, added four RBI, three runs scored and had 3-for-6 hitting performance in a 21-13 win over Harvard on April 15. 

2016: Team''s everyday second basemen, played in all 48 games and made 47 starts in his rookie campaign… Hit .266 with 47 hits, 24 runs, 16 RBI, four doubles and two triples on a team best 177 at bats… Had an on base and slugging percentage of .311… Had 82 putouts, 118 assists and four errors on 204 chances, also was tied for a team best 22 double plays… Had three games with three RBI… He also had 17 steals on the season… Hit his first collegiate triple against Princeton on April 8.

Before Yale: Four-year player in baseball and soccer at Fairfield Prep... Played six different positions on the baseball team... Led team in batting average (.434), singles and stolen bases in 2015... Named 2015 Perfect Game All Region Honorable Mention... Led team in hits, runs and stolen bases in 2014... Team reached Connecticut Class LL semifinal in 2013... Captain of soccer team in 2014... Scored one goal and dished out six assists in his varsity career... Team was Class LL State Runner-Up in 2012... Two-time captain in three years with indoor track... Ran 6.82 in 55-yard dash at the 2014 Yale Invitational... Named Fairfield Prep Most Valuable Sprinter in 2012 and 2013... AP Scholar with Distinction... National Merit Scholarship Commended, News 12 Scholar Athlete... Fairfield County Catholic Top Graduate... National Honor Society member (Summa Cum Laude)... Harvard Book Club Award... Gold Metal Recipient of National Spanish Exam (98th percentile).

Personal: Son of Jamie and Marian Whiteman... Aunt, Penny Houghtaling, was a three-time NCAA All-American softball player (centerfielder) at Allegheny College... Hobbies and interests include photography, poetry, and creative essay writing.  

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