2019: NABC Third-team All-America ... Collegiate Baseball Third Team All-America ... First-team All-Region ... Earned MAC Player of the Year honors for the second-straight season, becoming the first player in MAC history to win the award twice ... First-team All-MAC ... Academic All-MAC ... Became Ohio's all-time hits leader ... Led the team in batting average (.382), hits (81), doubles (18), home runs (10), RBI (47), slugging percentage (.618) and on-base percentage (.464) ... .382 batting average was No. 28 in the country and second in the MAC.
2018: Earned MAC Player of the Year honors, joining Marc Krauss (2009) and Mitch Longo (2015) as the only players in program history to receive the award ... All-MAC First Team and All-MAC Defensive Team selection ... Earned Academic All-MAC selection ... Garnered MAC Commissioner's Award honors ... Earned MAC Honor Roll distinction ... Earned both Fall and Spring Athletics Director Honor Roll selection ... Led the Bobcats in batting average (.355), slugging percentage (.654), on-base percentage (.440), hits (76), doubles (15), home runs (15), walks (30), RBIs (50) and runs scored (48) in 2018, setting or tying career highs in every category ... Also tied for the team lead with two triples ... Tied for the MAC lead in hits and home runs and ranked second in slugging percentage and RBIs, third in batting average and fifth in runs scored ... His 140 total bases were good for a conference-high, rank 17th in the nation and tied him for the 10th-most in a single season in Ohio history ... Led Ohio with 24 multi-hit games – including a team-high eight with at least three hits – and also led the Bobcats with 15 multi-RBI games ... Posted a .996 fielding percentage and led Ohio with 467 putouts ... Committed just two errors on the season ... Ranked fourth on the squad with 25 assists and was a part of 47 double plays ... In conference play, sported a team-best .333 batting average, a team-best .620 slugging percentage and a team-best .498 on-base percentage ... Tallied a team-high 36 hits -- including a team-high eight doubles and seven home runs -- to go along with a team-high 27 RBIs and 24 runs scored ... Earned MAC Player of the Week honors for the third time in his career on May 14 as well as being named one of Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's National Players of the Week after leading the Bobcats in batting average (.444), slugging percentage (1.111), hits (8), home runs (4), RBIs (9), runs scored (8) and home runs (4) the previous week.
2017: Member of MAC tournament championship team ... Earned Academic All-MAC selection ... Garnered MAC Commissioner's Award honors ... Earned MAC Honor Roll distinction ... Earned both Fall and Spring Athletics Director Honor Roll selection ... All-MAC Defensive Team selection ... One of only two players on the team to start all 59 games ... Ranked third on the team with a .303 batting average, second with a .504 slugging percentage, second with a .395 on-base percentage, second with 71 hits, first with 50 RBIs, tied for second with 38 runs scored, tied for first with 14 doubles, second with 11 home runs and first with 26 walks ... Ranked second on the team with 21 multi-hit games and tied for first with 10 multi-RBI games ... Defensively, led the team with 488 putouts, which also led the MAC ... Named MAC East Division Player of the Week on both April 17 and May 8.
2016: Named to the 2016 Louisville Slugger All-Freshman Team ... One of just four Bobcat position players to play in all 52 of Ohio’s games during the 2016 season, starting 51 ... Ranked second on the team in RBIs (39), on-base percentage (.406) and doubles (13) and third in batting average (.319) and home runs (3) ... Tied for the team lead with 14 multi-RBI games -- including a team-high four outings with at least three RBIs ... Also tied for second with 12 multi-hit games.
Prior to Ohio: Earned four letters in baseball at La Crosse Aquinas High School ... Earned First Team All-Mississippi Valley Conference as well as all-state and all-district honors ... Ranked as one of the top players in Wisconsin according to Prep Baseball Report ... Competed for GRB Rays from 2008-14 at the club level.
Personal: Born Sept. 7, 1996 ... Son of Rudolph and Beverly Rott ... Has two sisters, Joella and Janelle ... Grandfather, Rudy Rott, was a right-handed pitcher for the Marine Corp during World War II and pitched professionally for five years in the Florida State League for the Deland Redhats and the Orlando Senators ... Majoring in sport management … Favorite professional sports teams are the Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks and Green Bay Packers ... Favorite athlete is Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy ... Honor Roll student and National Honor Society member at La Crosse Aquinas ... Volunteered for Holmen’s Hope which provides monthly meals for over 200 people ... Enjoys fishing, snowmobiling, jet skiing and spending time with his nieces and nephew.
