Jacob Jenkins-Cowart

Photo by: Pete Wright

Height:
6-6
Weight:
216
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Greensboro
High School:
Southeast Guilford
Major:
Communication

· Selected in the Eighth Round (Pick 244) of the 2024 MLB Draft by the Miami Marlins

· 2024 All-AAC First Team Selection
· AAC Player of the Week (Feb. 19th and April 19th, 2024)
· 2024 Preseason AAC Player of the Year (Baseball America)
· 2024 Preseason All-AAC Team (AAC Coaches/Perfect Game)
· No. 76 On 2024 Top 100 Juniors List (Perfect Game)
· 2023 All-AAC First Team Selection
· 2023 NCBWA Preseason All-America Third Team
· 2023 AAC Preseason Player of the Year (Baseball America)
· 2023 Preseason All-AAC Team (AAC Coaches Unanimous)
· 2023 Preseason All-AAC Team (Perfect Game)
· No. 88 Overall Prospect in 2024 MLB Draft (D1Baseball)
· No. 87 Overall Prospect in 2024 MLB Draft (Baseball America)
· No. 2 AAC Prospect in 2024 MLB Draft (Perfect Game)
· No. 3 AAC Prospect in 2024 MLB Draft (D1Baseball)
· No. 30 on 2023 Top 150 Outfielders List (D1Baseball)
· 2023 Perfect Game No. 49 Sophomore
· 2022 Freshman All-America Team (D1Baseball)
· 2022 NCAA Greenville All-Regional Team
· 2022 American Athletic Conference Championship Most Outstanding Player
· 2022 American Athletic Conference Championship All-Tournament Team
· Named Male Newcomer of the Year at the 2022 Goldspys.

2024: One of three Pirates to start all 63 games, playing right field in every contest … Hit .340 (90-for-265) with 61 runs scored, 19 doubles, 13 home runs, 79 RBI, 148 total bases, 21 walks and seven stolen bases … Produced a .558 slugging percentage and .386 on base percentage to account for a .944 OPS … Set the East Carolina and American Athletic Conference single-season record for RBI … Finished the campaign slotting 10th nationally in RBI, 32nd in hits and 45th in sacrifice flies (six) … Paced both the conference and the Pirates in RBI, doubles and at bats … Batted .324 (36-for-11) in league play … Hit .304 (7-for-23) at the NCAA Greenville Regional with four runs scored and six RBI … Led the club in both multiple-hit efforts (28) and multiple-RBI performances (20) … Put together a 13-game hitting streak from March 22 to April 10 during which he hit .333 (17-for-51) with 14 runs scored, two doubles, a home run and 10 RBI … Registered a .400 (4-for-10) batting average with the bases loaded while also hitting .730 (27-for-37) with a runner on third and less than two outs … Posted a team second-best 27 two-out RBI … Clubbed two home runs as part of a monster performance in the Pirates’ 15-5 win over Rice (May 17), ending the game going 4-for-5 with four runs scored and six RBI … Drove in at least three runs in 13 contests and recorded a hit in 51 of 63 games played … Tallied home runs against Rider (Feb. 16 and 18), Old Dominion (Feb. 27), Southeastern Louisiana (March 3), Florida Atlantic (April 5), William & Mary (April 16), Memphis (April 26), Tulane (May 12), Rice (May 16 and 17), Wichita State (May 25) and VCU (June 2) … Notched a pair of stolen bases at Memphis (April 26) … Hit most often in the third spot in the lineup, helping ECU to a 27-6 record in those games.

2023: Started all 60 games in which he played (26/RF, 13/LF, 11/CF, 10/DH) ... Hit .294 (63-for-214) with 33 runs scored, 13 doubles, one triple, nine home runs, 45 RBI, 105 total bases, 18 walks and two stolen bases ... Committed just one error in 68 defensive chances to finish the campaign with a .985 fielding percentage ... Tallied a .491 slugging percentage and .354 on base percentage for a 0.845 OPS ... Batted .275 (19-for-69) in American Athletic Conference play, starting all 20 games in which he appeared ... Hit .300 (3-for-10) in the NCAA Charlottesville Regional ... Put together 15 multi-hit and 11 multi-RBI efforts ... Went 39-for-108 (.361) with runners on base ... Notched three hits with the bases loaded ... Recorded 13 hits in 21 at bats (.619) with a runner on third and less than two outs ... Produced 17 two-out RBI ... Enjoyed a seven-game hitting streak from March 26 to April 6 during which he hit .407 (11-for-27) with eight run scored, seven RBI, two doubles, a triple and four home runs ... Clubbed home runs in contests against George Washington (Feb. 18), Indiana (March 3), William & Mary (March 15), George Mason (March 24), UNCW (March 28), NC State (April 4) and Tulane (April 29) ... Picked up five game-winning RBI in Pirate victories over Queens University (March 7), Liberty (March 10), Missouri State (March 19), Cincinnati (May 7) and Memphis (May 12) ... Belted his first career grand slam in ECU’s 11-3 win over George Washington in a season-opening doubleheader sweep of the Colonials ... Exploded at the plate in the Pirates’ 13-9 win over NC State in Greenville, going 3-for-5 with three runs scored, three home runs and five RBI ... Notched a stolen base against George Washington and Cincinnati (May 6) ... Recorded a hit in 44 of 60 games played while registering three or more base knocks in four contests ... East Carolina was 19-7 when he started a game in right field ... Hit most often in the cleanup spot (fourth), helping the Pirates to a 15-4 record in those games ... 2023 Summer: Played for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod League ... Appeared in 12 games, hitting .244 (10-for-41) with eight runs scored.

2022: Started 62 of 64 games played (45/RF, 17/DH) … Hit .330 (77-for-233) to rank third on the team … Tallied a team-best 65 RBI to go along with 44 runs scored, 10 doubles, 13 home runs, 16 walks, six stolen bases and a .549 slugging percentage … Also tied for the club lead with six sacrifice flies … Ranked in the top five all time for ECU freshmen in single-season games played, at bats, runs scored, hits, batting average, RBI, home runs, total bases (128) and stolen bases ... Started all 24 American Athletic Conference games, batting .341 (31-for-91) with 19 runs scored, five doubles, four home runs and seven walks drawn … Hit .360 (9-for-25) in the postseason with four runs scored and 13 RBI … Produced 24 multi-hit and a squad second-best 19 multi-RBI efforts … Turned in a .417 (5-for-12) batting average in the Greenville Super Regional while registering three runs scored, a home run and eight RBI … Batted a team-best .356 (48-for-135) with runners on base … Went 3-for-5 with the bases loaded … Was a stout .607 (17-for-28) with a runner on third and less than two outs … Produced 18 two-out RBI … Notched at least one hit in 46 of 64 games played … Enjoyed a season-high seven-game hitting streak from Feb. 27 to March 9 during which he hit .448 (13-for-29) with six RBI and six runs scored … Belted home runs during the regular season against Saint Mary’s (March 13), College of Charleston (March 18), Elon (March 23), Cincinnati (April 2), Old Dominion (April 6), Wichita State (April 8), Tulane (April 23) and Duke (May 10) before going long versus Cincinnati, Tulane and Houston in the American Athletic Conference as well as in game two of the NCAA Greenville Super Regional off Texas’ Marcus Olivarez … Collected a career-high four hits with three runs scored, two doubles and a RBI in ECU’s 15-1 victory over Memphis that clinched the road series sweep … Tallied eight game-winning RBI (Saint Mary’s/March 11 and 13, Wichita State/April 8, Duke/May 10, Campbell/May 17, Houston/May 29, Coppin State/June 3 and Texas/June 10) … Registered his lone triple of the campaign against Wichita State (April 9) … Secured the first multi-home run game of his career with a pair of long balls at Tulane (April 23) … Drew a season-high three walks against South Florida (May 14) … Stole a season-high two bases in the NCAA Greenville Regional opener versus Coppin State … Recorded three or more hits in a contest on six occasions … ECU was 23-8 when he batted in the third spot in the lineup … 2022 Summer: Played for the Burlington Sock Puppets of the Appalachian League … Hit .242 (8-for-33) with two runs scored and four RBI in eight games played.

Southeast Guilford High School: Two-sport athlete that earned five letters (baseball 3, basketball 2) … Helped the Falcons and coach Dave Beasley to a 34 wins over a three-year period, which included a pair of Mid-Piedmont 3A Conference championships (2019, 2021) … Three-time team captain and two-time all-conference performer (2019, 2021) … Spent freshman year as a member of the JV club … Batted .385 with a pair of home runs on the way to a 20-8 overall record and a perfect 11-0 ledger in league play that resulted in a conference title … Collected 29 hits and drove in 28 runs en route to all-conference accolades … In four games during junior campaign that was cut short due to COVID-19 Pandemic, he batted .356 (six hits) with a home runs and seven RBI … Closed out prep career hitting .433 with five home runs taking home all-conference honors … Tallied 18 hits and drove in 19 runs … Helped Falcons to an 11-3 overall record and a 10-2 ledger in league play capturing the second conference title in three years … Played travel ball for the Dirtbags … Listed as the second-best first basemen and 29th overall prospect in North Carolina by Perfect Game … Tabbed a Top 500 prospect and the 35th-best first basemen nationally by Perfect Game … Listed as the 17th-best player in North Carolina by Impact Baseball … Preseason Underclass All-American High Honorable Mention in 2019 … Two-time Preseason All-Atlantic Regional Second-Team selection (2020-21) by Perfect Game … Played in several showcase events including 2018 15U BCS National Championship (Fort Myers, Fla.), 2018 WWBA 2021 Gras/15U National Championship (Cartersville, Ga.), 2018 15U Perfect Game World Series (Cartersville, Ga.), 2018 WWBA Sophomore World Championship (Fort Myers, Fla.), 2019 WWBA 2020 Grads/17U National Championship (Cartersville, Ga.), 2019 WWBA 2021 Grads/16U National Championship (Cartersville, Ga.), 2019 PG 18U Greensboro Grasshoppers Championship (Greensboro, N.C.), 2019 WWBA Underclass World Championship (Fort Myers, Fla.), 2020 PG 17U National Elite Championship (Hoover, Ala.), 2020 Ultimate Baseball Championship (Hoover, Ala.), 2020 WWBA 2021 Grads/17U National Championship (Marietta, Ga.) and 2020 WWBA World Championship (Fort Myers, Fla.) … Named to five all-tournament teams in Perfect Game events.

Personal: Full name is Jacob Sean Jenkins-Cowart … Born in Greensboro, N.C. … Son of Shannon Cowart and CJ Jenkins … Has one sibling (Katie) … Mother Shannon played softball and volleyball at Greensboro College … Intended major is recreation and parks management ... Six-time ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll (Fall 2021-present) member ... Named to the 2022-23 and 2023-24 American Athletic Conference All-Academic Teams.