Ethan Norby

Height:
5-10
Weight:
195
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Kernersville
High School:
East Forsyth
Major:
Communication

· 2025 NCBWA Preseason All-America Third Team Selection
· 2025 Preseason All-AAC Team (AAC Coaches)
· 2024 Freshman All-America First Team (Perfect Game)
· 2024 Freshman All-America Second Team (Baseball America)
· 2024 American Athletic Conference All-Freshman Team Selection
· Ranked No. 93 on 2025 Top 105 Collegiate Sophomores List (Perfect Game)
· No. 10 AAC Impact Freshman (D1Baseball)
· No. 8 AAC Prospect For 2026 Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft (Perfect Game)

2024: Appeared in 20 games with 10 starts, eventually working his way into the Pirates’ weekend rotation … Put together a 4-0 record while compiling a 3.79 earned run average with 63 strikeouts against 25 walks in 59.1 innings of work … Posted a pair of saves in wins over Wichita State (April 19) and Rice (May 16) … Limited opposing hitters to a .243 batting average … Went 1-0 with a 3.25 earned run average and 33 strikeouts in 27.2 innings during American Athletic Conference play … Logged double-digit strikeouts in nine appearances, including a career-high 10 in a 4.2-inning relief effort versus Old Dominion (April 10) … Became the first ECU reliever to register 10 or more strikeouts in a game since Jake Agnos fanned 11 against Western Carolina on March 3, 2017 … Tallied wins over UAB, Old Dominion, NC State and Evansville … Struck out six and did not allow a hit in 4.0 scoreless and hitless innings in the UAB series finale ... Collected his first collegiate save in the Wichita State series opener by striking out four over the final 1.1 innings ... Allowed just one earned run in 4.1 innings of relief to earn the win over No. 21 NC State ... Logged his second save of the season with 2.2 scoreless frames in the Rice series opener ... Struck out nine batters over in a career long 5.1 inning effort to help lift East Carolina past Evansville in game one of the NCAA Greenville Regional finals.

High School: Four-year varsity letterman and team captain for head coach Drew Dull at East Forsyth High School ... Named to the all-conference team in 2022 and 2023 after leading the Eagles to a pair of league titles ... Hit .316 as a senior (24-for-76) with 23 runs scored, four doubles, five home runs and 22 RBI ... Rated the 30th-best prospect in the state of North Carolina and ninth-ranked LHP according to Perfect Game ... Earned Perfect Game Preseason All-Atlantic Region Honorable Mention honors in 2022 and 2023 ... Named to the all-tournament team at the 2020 PG Super25 15u North Carolina Super Qualifier, 2020 PG 15u Coastal Summer Championship, 2021 WWBA 2023 Grads or 16U National Championship, 2021 16U PG Coastal Elite Championship, 2022 PG High School Showdown, 2021 PG Underclass Coastal Fall Invitational, 2021 PG Upperclass WWBA Coastal Fall Championship, 2022 WWBA 2023 Grads or 17U National Championship, 2022 17U Ultimate Baseball Championship – East and the 2022 WWBA World Championship ... Member of the Dirtbags club that won the 2022 PBR Cup title and made the semifinals of the 2022 WWBA World Championship.

Personal: Full name is Ethan Patrick Norby … Son of Jill and Dave Norby … Brother of former ECU All-America second baseman Connor Norby who is currently playing in the Miami Marlins organization … Two-time ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll member (Fall 2023-Present) … Named to the 2023-24 American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.