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2023 Baseball Roster

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27 Will Stroud

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 185
  • Class Senior
  • Major Business Finance
  • Hometown Paso Robles, Calif.
  • High School Paso Robles HS

Biography

2023: Named Academic All-PacWest… Saw action in 48 games with 46 starts for the Cougars in his final season… Collected a .306 batting average (52-for-170) with 38 RBI, 11 doubles, seven home runs and 34 runs scored… Had a .494 slugging percentage and a .387 on-base percentage while also stealing two bases… Defensively, had 95 putouts with two assists… Had 13 multi-hit games… To win the PacWest Tournament title over Point Loma, he went 3-for-5 with two home runs, five RBI and two runs scored.

2022: Earned Academic All-PacWest distinction... Appeared in 41 games with 39 starts for the Cougars this season… Was 40-for-138 at the plate (.290 AVG%), scoring 33 runs… Recorded a SLG% of .543, with eight doubles, nine home runs, 34 RBI, and an OB% of .401… Posted a .963 FLD% in the outfield, with 48 putouts and four assists over 54 total chances… In a victory over Hawai’i Hilo on 3/24, he went 2-for-4 at the plate, with two home runs, two runs scored and a career-high four RBI. 

2021 (Sophomore): Appeared in 15 games, starting six...batted .318 with one home run and five runs batted in...went 2-for-2 with home run and two runs batted in nightcap against Westmont (February 27), scoring four runs over the course of the doubleheader.

2020 (COVID-shortened season): Appeared 15 times and started six times for the Cougars… Hit .231 with four RBI, and six hits… Also recorded one double, four runs scored, two walks, and one hit by pitch.

2019 (Freshman): As a true freshman appeared in 40 games, starting in 21 of them… hit .329 on the year with one homerun and 16 RBI… tallied 29 hits which included six doubles… scored 16 runs while walking 12 times… In the week of March 21st he was named the PacWest Freshman of the Week in which he went 5-for-9 with two RBI and two runs scored in a sweep against Hawai’i Hilo… In a 13-9 victory over the Academy of Art (April 19), he had three hits in four at-bats with three RBI and a double… Was selected to Academic All-PacWest.

High School: Graduated Paso Robles High School in Paso Robles, Calif… Played two years of basketball under coach Matt Drake… Played four years of baseball under father and coach Derek Stroud… As a junior was awarded first team All-League and second team All-County…In his senior campaign was named first team All-League and first team All-County.

Personal: Born on August 7, 1999 in San Luis Obispo Calif. … Son of Derek and Lainey… Has two sisters Becca and Kylie… Father Derek Stroud played baseball at Fresno State, was drafted in 22nd round by the Chicago Cubs in 1987 and played seven season of minor league baseball, was also named to the Paso Robles athletics Hall of Fame in 1992… Majoring in Business Finance… Interested in becoming a Financial Manager… Hobbies include playing golf, and ping pong.

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Historical Player Information

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    2019Freshman

    INF
    6'1" 180 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2020Sophomore

    UTL
    6'1" 195 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2021Sophomore

    UTL
    6'1" 180 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2022Junior

    UTL
    6'1" 185 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2023Senior

    UTL
    6'1" 185 lbs
    27