2025: Played in 40 games, all coming as starts... Led Covenant with a .352 batting average and 56 hits... Totaled 24 RBI and 33 runs... Had eight doubles and three home runs on the season... Yielded a .459 SLG% and a .426 OB%... Held a 22-game hitting streak from 2/22 to 4/5... Posted four games where had three hits... Had three RBI in a road win at LaGrange and a neutral site victory over Ferrum... 32 putouts and 67 assists in the field while holding a .934 fielding percentage... Ended Covenant career in the top-five of several career statistical categories: Hits (1st, 223), Games Played (2nd, 173), Games Started (4th, 161), At Bats (1st, 655), Batting Average (5th, .340), Home Runs (2nd, 19), Runs (1st, 149), Hit By Pitch (1st, 46)... First Team All-CCS.
2024: Appeared in 39 games and posted a .338 batting average with 22 RBI and a team-high seven home runs... .530 slugging percentage and a .398 on-base percentage... Hit eight doubles and drew 10 walks... Rode a 12-game hitting streak from 2/23 through 3/16... Had two or more hits in 14 games... Went 2-for-4 with a season-high 4 RBI in a win over North Park... Scored a team-high 35 runs for the year... 47 putouts and 101 assists for the season... Second Team All-CCS honoree.
2023: Played and started all 34 games for the Scots... Had a team-high .358 batting average, team-high 30 RBI, and was tied for the team-high in HRs with three... 25 runs scored and a .883 OPS... Went 4-for-4 with a HR and 7 RBI in a win over MUW (set a career-high in hits and RBI)... Rode a seven-game hit streak in March and a 10-game hitting streak in April... Had the game-winning hit in the 10th inning at Sewanee... 15 games with two or more hits... Tallied three hits in back-to-back games against Piedmont and Maryville... CCS Player of the Week on April 10... 53 putouts and 93 assists in the field.
2022 (Sophomore - Stats): Played and started in all 41 games, becoming the starting shortstop... Batted .327 with six homers, 25 RBI, a team-high 47 runs scored, .512 slugging percentage, and a .423 on-base percentage... Reached base safely in each of the last 32 games of the season and had a 15-game hitting streak during the year... His 47 runs scored are second in a season in program history... Hit .325 in USA South play... Totaled 15 multi-hit games and had five multi-RBI games... Hit two home runs in a game twice on the year against Oglethorpe (Feb. 19) and at Sewanee (March 29)... Had two three-hit games... Had a walk-off sacrifice fly in a win over LaGrange (March 26)
2021 (Freshman - Stats): Played in 19 games and made 10 starts... Batted .304 with a .353 on-base percentage and had nine RBI and nine runs scored... Made collegiate debut vs. Johnson (Feb. 19)... Made first career start vs. LaGrange (March 6) and went 1-for-3... Went 3-for-5 with two runs and an RBI in a win at Maryville (May 1)... Had two hits and two runs in a win at Sewanee (March 20)... Also had two hits with a season-high three RBI in a 14-inning win at Huntingdon (March 27)... Named to the USA South All-Academic team
High School: Attended Alexander High School... All-Region first team... All-County first team... Two-time region champion... Academic top 10 numerical average... Board scholar with a 4.0 GPA
Personal: Parents are Stephen and Christina Gilbert... Has one sibling, Chloe... Favorite Bible verse is Isaiah 41:10... Majoring in pre-engineering
