Skip To Main Content

Newberry College Athletics

Official Site of the Newberry Wolves

2018 Baseball

15 Derek Olenchuk

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 185
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Irmo, S.C.

Biography

2018

First Team all-ECAC... Male Comeback Player of the Year... Honorable Mention Outfielder for SAC... SAC All-Defensive Team... ECAC Player of the Week (March 13)

Appeared and started 47 games... Lead the team with the most at-bats (200), tied for second in hits (72) and doubles (12), and second on the team with five homeruns... Only made one error on the season, giving him a fielding percentage of .990.

2017

Started in 51 games...Recorded a batting average of .316...Led the team with 14 doubles and 49 RBI...Tied for most triples (3) on the team...Hit his only home run of the season in a doubleheader against Brevard (3/4/2017)...Finished the season with 61 hits and 36 runs.

Previous to Newberry

Erksine College
Played for Coach Nichols... Transferred out.

Dutch Fork High School
Athletic honors included: 3 All-region team, All-State team... Played for Coach Casey Waites.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Personal
Son of Mark and Pamela Olenchuk... Favorite movie is I Am Legend... Favorite musician is Eric Church... Favorite TV show is Family Guy... Favorite course in school is english... Favorite author is Suzanne Collins... Favorite food is steak... Favorite athlete is Derek Jeter... Favorite pro sports team is the Pittsburgh Pirates... Favorite quote is "Failing to prepare, is preparing to fail."... Hobbies include outdoors.

Statistics

Season Statistics

Season Statistics

No statistics available for this season.

Career Statistics

There are no statistics available for this player.

Historical Player Information

  • 10

    2016Sophomore

    INF
    6'1" 185 lbs
    10
  • 10

    2017Junior

    INF
    6'1" 185 lbs
    10
  • 15

    2018Senior

    INF
    6'1" 185 lbs
    15