2019
Honorable Mention All-American (NCBWA)...Second Team Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-American...Unanimous First Team All-Region (ABCA, D2CCA, NCBWA)...SAC Player of the Year...First Team All-SAC...SAC All-Defensive Team...SAC All-Tournament Team...Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-District...Two-time SAC Player of the Week
Newberry's first-ever SAC Player of the Year in baseball...One of three unanimous First Team All-Region selections in school history (Quinton Driggers - 2019, Albert Baur - 2015)...Set school record with 94 hits, which led all three NCAA divisions until the third week of May...Ended career on personal-best 16-game hitting streak and having reached base in 63 of his final 64 games dating to April 2018...Started 119 straight games and 182 of his last 183...Ranked among SAC's top 10 in batting average (3rd - .403), on-base percentage (8th - .467), at-bats (1st - 233), hits (1st - 94), doubles (3rd - 19), triples (1st - 5), runs (2nd - 61), RBI (10th - 45), total bases (4th - 126), sacrifice flies (4th - 5), sacrifice bunts (5th - 7), and stolen bases (5th - 23)...Led team in RBI from leadoff position...31 multi-hit games...Ranked by NCAA as SAC's toughest player to strike out...First Newberry player in 14 years with outfield assists in consecutive innings with two in an April 12 win over Catawba...Racked up 12 outfield assists in his career with 202 games played, 192 in center field...Second in school history with 275 career hits, third with career .370 batting average...Member of Newberry's first-ever conference regular season championship team that spent eight weeks ranked in the top 10 and set school record with 41 wins...Part of the winningest senior class in school history (131 wins)...Plays with hearing aids due to bilateral hearing loss...Profiled in ABC Columbia (after graduation), The State, and WLTX.
2018
First Team All-ECAC...Second Team All-SAC... 2018 SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll...2018 ECAC Academic Honor Roll
Appeared and started in all 48 games this year... Had a .389 batting average, which ranks second on the team and sixth in the SAC conference... Leads the team with 26 multiple hit games and has two 13 game hitting streaks... Ranks 14Â nationally with 26 stolen bases, and has only one error on his 139 fielding opportunities, which gives him a fielding statistic of .993.
2017
2017 SAC Baseball All-Conference Gold Glove...SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll
Started in all 52 games...Recorded a batting average of .349...Led the team with 67 hits...Finished the season with 46 runs and 25 RBI.Â
Prior to Newberry
Mid-Carolina High School
Athletic honors included: 2014 & 2015 captain, 3 time All-conference player, 2 time All-state player, North/South All-Star... Played for Coach Daniel Gregory... Was part of the Beta Club and student council.Â
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Personal
Son of Eddie and Jan Hyman... Favorite movie is Facing the Giants... Favorite musician is Jason Aldean... Favorite TV show is SportsCenter... Favorite course in school is math... Favorite book is The Great Gatsby... Favorite food is tacos... Favorite athlete is Derek Jeter... Favorite pro sports team is the Yankees... Favorite quote is " Play the game because you love it and treat it the right way because baseball is a humble game."- my dad... Hobbies include playing basketball, fishing, hunting, and spending time with my family.
