Colby Wallace

Position:
Infield/RHP
Height:
6-3
Weight:
210
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Biscoe
High School:
Pinecrest
Major:
Recreation and Park Management

· No. 6 AAC Prospect For 2026 Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft (Perfect Game)

2024: Played in 27 games with 16 starts (13/3B, 3/DH) … Also made five appearances on the mound … Hit .261 (18-for-69) with 15 runs scored, a double, a triple, six RBI, 21 total bases and 10 walks … Posted a 2-0 record with a 4.50 earned run average, four strikeouts and four walks in 6.0 innings pitched … Hit .395 (15-for-38) in American Athletic Conference play with 11 runs scored and four RBI … Tallied four two-out RBI … Picked up a pair of pitching victories over Rice (May 21 and 24) at the AAC Tournament … Logged a season-high three hits in three games – versus Cal State Fullerton (March 2), Charlotte (April 14) and Wichita State (April 19) … Made his collegiate pitching debut against Rice (May 17), striking out three batters in 2.0 scoreless innings … Drove in two runs in the series finale versus Wichita State (April 20) … Drew three walks against Columbia (March 15).

High School: Four-year varsity letterman and team captain for head coach Jeff Hewitt at Pinecrest High School ... Hit .374 (79-for-211) in his prep career with 56 runs scored, 18 doubles, four triples, 10 home runs, 70 RBI, 29 stolen bases, 36 walks drawn and a 1.117 OPS ... Posted a 0.52 earned run average his senior season with 88 strikeouts and 23 walks in 53.2 innings of work ... Three-time conference pitcher of the year ... Named to the North Carolina Baseball Coaches Association All-State First Team as a junior and senior ... Helped lead the Patriots to the state finals in 2022 as well as three conference championships ... Rated the No. 390 recruit nationally and 80th-best shortstop while slotting as the No. 18 prospect in the state of North Carolina and fifth-ranked shortstop ... Earned Perfect Game Preseason All-Atlantic Region First-Team honors in 2022 and 2023 after garnering second-team accolades in 2021 and honorable mention distinction in 2020 ... Part of Canes National 16U and 17U squads that captured the 2021 PG 16U World Series, 16U Ultimate Baseball Championship and WWBA Underclass World Championship as well as a South Charlotte Panthers club that won the 2022 PG 17U National Elite Championship and 18U PG Upperclass Coastal Fall Elite Championship ... Collected all-tournament laurels at the 2016 PG Super25 12u Fall North Carolina Super Qualifier, 2018 13U PG Summer Showdown Protected by G-Form, 2018 13U BCS National Championship, 2018 PGBA 14U Greensboro Grasshoppers Classic, 2019 PG 14U Super25 National Championship, 2020 PG 15U World Series, 2020 WWBA Sophomore World Championship, 2021 WWBA 2023 Grads or 16U National Championship, 2021 WWBA National Qualifier, 2021 PG 16U World Series, 2021 PG Underclass WWBA Coastal Fall Championship, 2022 PG 17U National Elite Championship and 2022 WWBA World Championship ... Also earned three varsity letters as a member of the Pinecrest basketball program, earning all-conference honors twice.

Personal: Full name is Colby Blake Wallace … Son of Donnie and LeAnn Wallace … Has two siblings – Abby and Dylan ... Mother played college volleyball at High Point University for one season ... Two-time ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll member (Fall 2023-Present) … Named to the 2023-24 American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.