2024 – Sophomore Season: First Team All-BIG EAST selection… Started in 52 games… Ranked third on the team with a .332 batting average… Recorded 69 hits in 208 at-bats… Ended the year with 15 doubles and six home runs to post a ..490 slugging percentage… Scored 42 runs… Recorded 41 RBIs and 102 total bases… Walked 29 times and was hit by a pitch three times to raise his on-base percentage to .412… Ranked third in the BIG EAST with five sacrifice flies… Made 117 putouts… Came up with 33 hits against conference opponents in 2024, the most of any BIG EAST player… Hit .384 in conference action… Went 5-for-6 with a double and three RBIs in the finale at Villanova (5/12)… Went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI in game two vs. UConn (5/17)… Recorded a season-high five RBIs against Eastern Illinois (5/8)… Went 3-for-5 with two doubles and a run scored against the Panthers… Hit a homer vs. Alabama A&M to end the day 3-for-6 with four RBIs and three runs scored (2/24)… Had two doubles and three RBIs vs. Purdue Fort Wayne (3/5)… Had a three hit game vs. Bradley (3/15)… Walked a season-high three times vs. Bradley (3/24)… Hit two home runs in the series at Indiana… Ended the IU series going 4-for-4 with a solo homer (3/30)… Went 4-for-5 from the plate in game two vs. Georgetown (4/13)… Scored a season-high three runs in the game at Eastern Michigan (4/16)… Hit a solo home run vs. Miami Ohio (4/17)… Hit a solo home run in the final game of the Seton Hall series (4/28)… Had 20 multi-hit games… Had multiple RBIs in eight games… Longest hitting streak covered eight games… Reached base safely in 19-straight games.
2023 – Freshman Season: BIG EAST Freshman of the Year… Member of Collegiate Baseball’s Freshman All-American Team… Tabbed BIG EAST Player of the Week (2/20)… One of two Bulldogs to start in all 55 games… Led Butler in hits (66), batting average (.296), at-bats (223), total bases (107), RBIs (35), slugging percentage (.480), runs scored (37), and doubles (17)… Tied for fourth in the BIG EAST with 17 doubles… Tied for the team lead in home runs with six… Added three triples… Walked 20 times and was hit by a pitch five times to raise is on-base percentage to .364… Had two sac flies and three sac bunts… Stole five bases… Posted a .992 fielding percentage… Led the team with 19 multi-hit games… Had multiple RBIs in nine games… Longest hitting streak covered 10 games… Reached base safely in 11-straight… Ended the Georgetown series going 4-for-6 from the plate with two doubles, three RBIs and a run scored (5/7)… Went 3-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI vs. Northern Kentucky (4/18)… Matched his season-high total with three RBIs in the first game of the Villanova series (4/14)… Hit a home run in his Butler debut vs. FDU (2/17)… Had an RBI triple in game two of the regular season (2/18)… Erupted with a 3-for-4 day vs. FDU in game three with two doubles, two RBI and a season-high three runs scored (2/18)… Homered in the final game vs. FDU (2/19)… Came up with six hits, four RBI, a double, a triple and a home run in the three-game series at Campbell (2/24)… Hit a home run and scored three runs vs. Central Connecticut State (3/3)… Went 2-for-4 with a triple, two RBI and two runs scored vs. Eastern Michigan (3/21)… Led off the final game of the Xavier series with a home run (4/8)… Final homer came at Purdue (4/19.
High School: Earned four varsity letters… Three-year starter… Hit .404 in 2021… Recognized as a Top-10 Palm Beach County Player… 2021 First Team All-Palm Beach shortstop… Earned multiple Team MVP Awards… Played club ball for the Florida Burn… Honor Roll Student… Also played football.
Personal: Son of Tom and Juli Urban… Has two siblings; Tommy and Courtney… Business major.
Why Urban Chose Butler
Butler has one of the best business schools in the country and I get the opportunity to play baseball.