Justin Wilcoxen

Height:
6-0
Weight:
210
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Raleigh
High School:
Millbrook
Major:
Business Administration

· 2024 NCAA Greenville All-Regional Team Selection
· 2024 All-AAC First Team Selection
· 2024 Preseason All-AAC Team (AAC Coaches/Perfect Game)
· 2024 Top 50 Catchers - No. 23 (D1Baseball)
· 2023 All-American Athletic Conference Second Team Selection
· No. 6 AAC Prospect in 2024 MLB Draft (D1Baseball)
· No. 10 AAC Prospect in 2024 MLB Draft (Perfect Game)
· American Athletic Conference Player of the Week (Feb. 20, 2023)
· ECU All-Academic Team selection presented at Annual Breakfast of Champions (April 30, 2022)

2024: Played in all 63 games with 61 starts (47/C, 14/DH) … Hit .293 (67-for-229) with 40 runs scored, six doubles, 14 home runs, 47 RBI, 115 total bases and 23 walks … Committed just two errors in 508 defensive chances to post a .996 fielding percentage … Produced a .502 slugging percentage and .369 on base percentage to account for a .871 OPS … Batted .290 (27-for-93) with 20 runs scored and 23 RBI in American Athletic Conference play … Threw out 14 runners attempting to steal … Tallied 20 multiple-hit performances and 10 multiple-RBI efforts … Put together an 11-game hitting streak from April 14-May 5 during which he batted .409 (18-for-44) with 15 runs scored, 14 RBI and six home runs … Notched 20 two-out RBI … Hit .786 (11-for-14) with a runner on third and less than two outs … Posted 26 “productive outs” (advancing a runner when making an out) … Turned in a game-winning RBI at Elon (March 19) … Clubbed home runs against Southeastern Louisiana (March 3), Columbia (March 17), UTSA (March 24), NC State (April 2 and 23), Florida Atlantic (April 6), Wichita State (April 20), Memphis (April 28), South Florida (May 3 and 5) and Rice (May 16 and 17) … Notched a pair of hits and drove in a run at Campbell ... Tallied two hits and an RBI in the 7-4 win over then No. 15 North Carolina in Fayetteville ... Registered three hits, three runs scored, two RBI and two home runs versus Southeastern Louisiana - his first career multi-home run effort ... Tied his career high with four hits at UNCW ... Logged three hits and four RBI in the Columbia series finale ... Posted a pair of hits and scored two runs in the win at NC State ... Turned in his second career multi-home run effort in the 11-7 win over Wichita State ... Notched two hits, including a home run, in the home win over No. 21 NC State ... Went 3-for-4 with two runs scored, two RBI, a double and a home run in the Memphis series finale ... Tallied two hits, three runs scored and a pair of RBI in the series-opening win over South Florida ... Logged three RBI in the first two games of the Rice series … Posted a pair of hits, a run scored and an RBI in the 19-6 win over Evansville at the NCAA Greenville Regional.

2023: Played in 60 games with 55 starts, developing into East Carolina’s everyday catcher ... Hit .318 (71-for-223) with 43 runs scored, 20 doubles, one triple, nine home runs, 49 RBI, 120 total bases and 20 walks ... Upped his batting average to .323 (21-for-65) in American Athletic Conference play with 14 runs scored, four doubles, three home runs, 15 RBI and nine walks ... Paced the club in batting average and doubles while leading the league in doubles, chances (580) and putouts (523) ... Caught a conference second-best 19 runners stealing ... Produced 18 multi-hit and 15 multi-RBI efforts ... Helped lead the Pirates to 39 wins as the starting catcher ... Put together a team long 15-game hitting streak from March 8 to April 7 during which he batted .360 (18-for-50) with nine runs scored, nine RBI, five doubles and a home run ... Also reached Hit .342 (26-for-76) against left-handed pitchers ... Recorded four hits in 10 at bats (.400) with the bases loaded ... Went 20-for-46 (.435) when leading off an inning ... Posted a .615 average (8-for-13) with a runner on third and less than two outs as well as hitting .321 (26-for-81) with runners in scoring position ... Tallied 23 two-out RBI as well as 26 “productive outs” (advancing a runner when making an out) ... Produced four game-winning RBI in victories over Indiana (March 3), Charlotte (April 19) and UCF (April 7 and May 26) ... Got off to a scorching start at the plate, hitting .714 (10-for-14) with nine runs scored, three doubles, two home runs and eight RBI in the season-opening sweep of George Washington ... Collected a career-high four hits in both games of the doubleheader with the Colonials ... Drove in a personal-best five runs at Cincinnati (May 6) ... Drew multiple walks in three contests (Liberty/March 10, at South Florida/May 20 and versus UCF/May 26) ... Stole his first career base at Elon (March 8) ... Hit most often in the sixth spot in the lineup (22 times), helping ECU to a 16-6 record in those games.

2022: Played in 48 games with 28 starts (14/C, 14/DH) ... Batted .276 (27-for-98) with nine runs scored, six doubles, two home runs and nine RBI ... Led the squad in fielding percentage (1.000), committing no errors in 178 chances ... One of the club’s top hitters in American Athletic Conference play by average, batting .346 (9-for-26) with four runs scored and two doubles ... Started seven of 15 league games played ... Posted a .375 batting average in the postseason (3-for-8) with five starts ... Went 2-for-4 with a home run and run scored in the NCAA Greenville Regional, starting three of the contests ... Garnered four at bats in the NCAA Greenville Super Regional versus Texas ... Went 11-for-26 (.423) when leading off an inning ... Posted three two-out RBI ... Notched four multi-hit and one multi-RBI effort ... The Pirates were 13-1 when he started as the designated hitter ... Put together a seven-game hitting streak from Feb. 20 to March 5 during which he batted .400 (10-for-25) with three runs scored and five RBI ... Hit most often in the ninth spot in the lineup (13 times) while also batting in the six, seven and eight positions (all five games) ... Produced double-digit putouts in six games ... Recorded a career-high six total bases against North Carolina (Feb. 27), going 2-for-3 with a run scored, two RBI, a double and a home run in East Carolina’s 5-0 victory ... Clubbed a solo home run in the fifth inning of ECU’s 4-1 win over Virginia that catapulted the Pirates into the NCAA Greenville Regional finals ... Drew a pair of walks versus Cincinnati (May 1) ... Tallied a career-high 14 putouts in the 10-8 win over Michigan at the LeClair Classic (March 5) ... 2022 Summer: Played for the Asheboro Zookeepers of the Coastal Plain League ... Posted a team third-best .282 batting average (22-for-78) with eight runs scored, five doubles and 20 RBI ... Notched seven multi-hit games ... Went 3-for-5 with a RBI against the Forest City Owls (July 14).

2021: Appeared in three games (all in a reserve role) ... Made collegiate debut at UNCW (March 17) as a pinch hitter ... Also experienced game action at Elon (March 26) and at South Florida (May 21) ... Recorded three at-bats with one strikeout ... 2021 Summer: Played for the Asheboro Zookeepers in the Coastal Plains League with current teammate Joey Berini … Appeared in 21 games posting a .339 (19-for-56) batting average … Hit a pair of home runs and laced two doubles … Drove in 16 runs and scored 12 times … Recorded seven multi-hit and six multi-RBI games … Hit a home run in both games of a doubleheader against the Owls (July 29) … Tallied a season-best three hits versus the Flamingos (July 3) … Plated season-best three runs against the Mustangs (July 23).

2020: Did not participate in any games during true freshman season.

Millbrook High School: Three-year lettermen for coach Austin James … Helped the Wildcats to 44 wins over three years … During prep career tallied 72 hits with six home runs, nine doubles and 51 RBI … As a sophomore he batted .235 (12-for-51) with a double in 17 games … Plated 15 runs while scoring eight … Followed that with a stellar sophomore campaign where he earned All-Cap-7 Conference Honorable Mention accolades … Appeared in 25 games hitting at a .364 clip (28-for-97) with a home run, 22 RBI and six runs scored … Closed out career earning all-conference honors and being named Millbrook’s Team MVP … Batted .375 with 32 hits, four home runs, four doubles and 14 RBI … Played travel ball for the Carolina Cubs 2019 under Mike Reynolds and the Dirtbags under Andy Partin … Rated as the seventh-best catching prospect in North Carolina (No. 69 overall) by Perfect Game … Nationally listed as a Top 500 overall prospect (No. 208 catching) by Perfect Game … Named 2019 Preseason Honorable Mention All-Atlantic Region by Perfect Game … Played in a pair of showcase events including 2017 PG Super25 2020 Grads/15U North Carolina Super Qualifier (all-tournament team) and 2018 WWBA World Championship … Graduate cum laude … A/B Honor Roll student (freshman and sophomore) … CPC All-Academic Team selection (junior and senior).

Personal: Full name is Justin Charles Wilcoxen … Born in Raleigh, N.C. … Son of Mary Beth and Dwayne Wilcoxen … Has three siblings (Connor, Ethan, Matthew) … Eight-time ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll (Fall 2019-present) ... Named to the 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 American Athletic Conference All-Academic Teams.