2023 Baseball Roster
Roster
Nolen Hester
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 185
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Mount Pleasant, Texas
- High School:
- Rockwall-Heath
2023 (Senior/5th Yr.):
- All-Big 12 Second Team
- Played in all 24 conference games and led the Big 12 in on-base percentage (.513) while finishing second in batting average (.402)
- All-Big 12 Tournament Team
- Batted .500 (7-14) with four RBIs across four tournament games, including a 3-3 night vs. Oklahoma in which he drilled a game-tying RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning
- Big 12 Newcomer of the Week, May 22
- Went 7-12 (.583) from the plate across a three-game set vs. Kansas, which included back-to-back three-hit games
- Started in all 60 games he played
- Served as the Red Raiders' leadoff man and everyday left fielder during his lone season in Lubbock
- Led the the team in batting average (.361), on-base percentage (.525) and walks (61) while also drawing 16 HBP
- His 61 walks are the third-most all-time by a Red Raider in a single season
- Recorded 26 multi-hit games on the year while leading the team with eight three-hit performances
- Was as reliable as it gets in left field, posting a 1.000 fielding % on the year
- Reached base safely in 59 of 60 games played
- Reached base at least once in each of the final 50 games of the year
- Recorded a 13-game hit streak from April 19 vs. Grand Canyon to May 13 at No. 12 West Virginia
PRIOR TO TEXAS TECH: Played for four seasons at Wofford … selected to 2021 All-Southern Conference Second Team by coaches and media and 2022 Preseason All-Southern Conference Team … three-time Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll … recorded a career average of .331 and a career fielding percentage of .995 … tied the Southern Conference record for most hits in a single game (6-6) … 2022: Played in all 59 games with 58 starts, all in the outfield … posted a .321 batting average with 67 hits, 11 doubles, two home runs, 45 runs scored and 42 RBI … was second on team with 34 walks and third with a .442 on-base percentage … was third in the SoCon with 10 sacrifice bunts … 2021: Started 52 games, with 44 starts at right field, seven starts in center field and one start in left field ... led the team with a .363 batting average, 73 hits and 52 runs scored ... among SoCon leaders was seventh in batting average, fourth in hits, sixth in runs scored and fifth in on base percentage (.472) ... was ranked the 45th toughest to strike out in the NCAA standings ... 2020: Played in ten games with two starts in center field and one start as the designated hitter ... 2019: Saw action in 37 games with eleven starts, nine of which were in the outfield ... Batted .290 with 18 hits - including seven doubles - and 16 RBIs in 62 at bats ... First career hit was a double against Radford (2/24).
HIGH SCHOOL: A four-year letterman at Rockwall-Heath High School ... during his senior year batted .391 with 36 hits, 37 runs scored and 32 RBIs, along with 19 stolen bases to earn first-team All-District honors at first base ... as a junior batted .528 with 38 hits and a .630 on-base percentage ... earned second-team All-State and first-team All-District honors, along with the league batting champion title ... as a sophomore, the team won a district championship and was state runner-up ... he was named to the state All-Tournament Team, while also being named first-team All-District ... as a freshman, he was District Newcomer of the Year with a .455 batting average ... member of the National Honor Society.
PERSONAL: Born in San Antonio, Texas … son of David and Tiffani Hester … siblings are Holden and Hayden … majoring in Finance.
