Tate McClellan

Photo by: Rob Goldberg

Photo by: Rob Goldberg

Position:
INF
Height:
5-8
Class:
Redshirt Senior
High School:
Olympia HS
Hometown:
Windermere, Fla.
Major:
Communication

2020 (Redshirt Senior): Played in all 23 games with 22 starts before the campaign was cut short due to the COVID-19 global pandemic … Hit .286 (20-for-70) with four doubles, three home runs, 11 RBI and seven walks … Ended the season with 31 career home runs – the third most in program history … Also finished up the campaign with 115 career RBI to move into ninth on the school’s top-10 list … Five of her 11 RBI occurred with two outs on the board … Produced six multi-hit and two multi-RBI efforts … Went 2-for-4 with a run scored in East Carolina’s 7-3 win over Massachusetts (Feb. 22) … Hit her first home run of the season in ECU’s 9-1 five-inning victory over Pittsburgh (Feb. 23) … Tallied a walkoff home run as part of a two-hit and two-RBI performance in the Pirates’ 6-5 eight-inning triumph over Towson (Feb. 23) … Went 2-for-3 with a double and RBI against Butler (Feb. 29) … Notched two hits, including a double, and a RBI at then No. 25 Fresno State (March 6) … Rapped out a pair of hits, scored a run and drove in a run in East Carolina’s 15-4 five-inning win over UC Davis (March 7) at the Fresno State Bulldog Classic … Went 2-for-4 with a run scored and a RBI in ECU’s 10-4 victory over BYU (March 7).

2019 (Redshirt Junior): Played in 53 games with 49 starts – 43 at first base, five at designated player and one at second base … Led the team in home runs (10) and ranked second in RBI (36) … Posted six multi-hit and nine multi-RBI efforts … Ranked second among American Athletic Conference batters in home runs and fifth in RBI … Began the season with a bang, notching two home runs, two runs scored and four RBI in East Carolina’s 11-4 victory over Youngstown State (Feb. 8) … Drove in three runs in the Pirates’ 9-1 run-rule win over Miami of Ohio (Feb. 8) … Scored three runs and notched three RBI against Columbia (March 1) … Tallied three RBI in contests versus Florida A&M (March 9), Cornell (March 16) and George Mason (March 17) … Produced a walkoff single in the Pirates’ 1-0 eight-inning win over Tulsa (April 14) that snapped the program’s 14-game losing streak to the Golden Hurricane … Recorded a season-best 12 putouts at USF (April 7).

2018 (Redshirt Sophomore): Played and started in 52 games, mostly as the designated player (34 starts) with 15 starts at third base and three at third base ... Was second on the squad in batting average (.278) and home runs (10) while leading the team in slugging percentage (.553), RBI (34), doubles (12) and total bases (84) ... Tied for the team lead with six multiple-RBI games ... Produced the longest reached base safely streak (16) of any player on the squad ... Tallied a season-high three hits in games against UMBC (Feb. 18), Canisius (Feb. 24) and Stony Brook (March 17) ... Exploded for three hits, five RBI, two home runs and 10 total bases in the Pirates’ 16-3 victory over Stony Brook.

2017 (Redshirt Freshman): Started all 56 games as the Pirates’ every day third baseman ... Batted .261 with 43 hits, 26 runs scored, 10 doubles, eight home runs and 35 RBI as well as posting a .467 slugging percentage and .320 on base percentage ... Tied for fourth among American Athletic Conference players in RBI and well as ranking fifth in home runs, tied for sixth in doubles and tied for ninth in total bases ... Produced nine games with multiple hits and led the team with 11 multi-RBI efforts ... Enjoyed a five-game hitting streak from March 26 to April 1 ... Posted a season-high three hits twice in contests against Winthrop (Feb. 11) and Radford (April 5) ... Notched five RBI and accounted for seven total bases versus Winthrop (Feb. 11).

2016 (Freshman): Did not compete in any games (redshirt)

High School: Four-year letterwinner at Olympia High School … Served as team captain for two years … Batted .538 as a senior with 27 RBIs and six home runs … Posted a .425 batting average in her junior year and drove in 24 runs while belting eight homers … Three-time All-Central Florida High School Softball selection … Named Offensive Player for Olympia High School in 2013 and MVP in 2014 and 2015.