2021: Earned All-America Second Team honors from Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game/Rawlings and was a third-team selection by Baseball America … also named to NCBWA Freshman All-America First Team and the Baseball America Freshman All-America Second Team … one of five finalists for the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award … also named to the Golden Spikes Award Watch List … ABCA/Rawlings All-Central Region Second Team performer … named to the 2021 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team … named All-Big 12 First Team as both a pitcher and utility player … became the 15th OSU pitcher to record 100 strikeouts in a season, finishing with 102 … posted five double-digit strikeout efforts on the season … had a pinch-hit RBI walk-off single vs. Illinois State (2/26) … tossed six shutout innings and struck out 12 in win vs. Missouri State (3/2) … racked up career-high 14 strikeouts in seven scoreless frames in win vs. Oral Roberts (3/9) … named Big 12 Pitcher and Newcomer of Week on March 15 … tossed a no-hitter vs. Kansas (5/8) … was only the third nine-inning no-hitter by an OSU pitcher in program history … needed just 99 pitches to secure the no-hitter and struck out 11 … issued just one walk, with one out in the eighth inning, which was only thing keeping him from perfect game … was named a Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week and Big 12 Pitcher of the Week on May 10 and earned the Golden Spikes Award Performance of the Week, the NCBWA Pitcher of the Week and the College Baseball Foundation Pitcher of the Week on May 11 … had career-high three hits and three RBIs vs. West Virginia (5/28) at the Big 12 Championship, going 3-for-4 with a double in the game … was named to the Big 12 Championship All-Tournament Team.
2020: Productive two-way player who made four starts on the mound and also appeared offensively in 10 games, including six as the starting DH … earned Freshman All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball … was in the weekend starting rotation the entire season … had four multiple-hit games … struck out four in three innings in collegiate debut at Grand Canyon (2/16) … was 3-for-3 with a home run and three RBIs in his first collegiate appearance in the batting lineup vs. UT Rio Grande Valley (2/21) … had a career day on the mound in the series-clinching win against BYU (3/6), working eight shutout innings and recording nine strikeouts, both career highs, while allowing only three hits and not issuing a walk … earned Big 12 Newcomer of the Week honors on March 9 following a week in which he also had four hits, including an RBI double, and three walks in 11 at-bats … hit safely in five of his last six games in the lineup … tied a career high with three RBIs in series finale vs. Saint Louis (3/11).
HIGH SCHOOL: Starred at Simi Valley High School, where he went 8-2 with a 1.17 ERA as a senior for the Pioneers while hitting .409 with 11 doubles, three home runs and 21 RBIs … also recruited by LSU, Tulane, Washington and USC ... an 18th-round pick of Houston in the 2019 MLB Draft.
PERSONAL: Majoring in university studies … born Feb. 14, 2001 ... son of Jeff and Traci Campbell ... has an older brother, Matt, who played baseball at Cal State Northridge ... favorite movie is Step Brothers ... favorite athlete is Clayton Kershaw ... favorite baseball moment is winning a gold medal with 12-U Team USA in 2013 ... chose OSU because its a new home that he saw himself going to for the next three years.
