2019 Baseball Roster
Jersey Number 30
Ward Coleman
- Class:
- Junior
- B/T:
- R/R
- Hometown:
- Wilmington, N.C.
- High School:
- New Hanover
2019: Hit .250 with seven RBIs and seven walks in 18 games and four starts • Had a two-RBI single against N.C. A&T (Feb. 26) • Had an RBI-single and drove in another run on a groundout against Saint Louis (April 28).
2018: Started in all 54 games, all coming at third base… posted the walk-off hit against Lafayette (2/18), the same team he recorded his first collegiate walk-off off of… 14 multi-hit games, including three hits each vs. Lafayette in the 2018 opener and Yale (3/10), where he hit first collegiate homer… seven multi-RBI games, including seven in the doubleheader with Yale and three vs. Mount St. Mary’s (3/18), where he also scored three times...doubled and scored vs. Saint Louis in the A-10 tournament (5/24)… finished season on a .260 clip overall with 52 hits, 21 runs, .350 SLG, .351 OBP… third on team with 32 RBI.
2017: Redshirted, did not play.
2016: Started 2 of the 13 games played at third base and was used mainly in pinch hitting situations … finished with 10 hits, two runs scored and one RBI in 19 at bats for a .526 batting average … posted a .526 slugging percentage and a .526 on base percentage … finished with just one error and made three putouts with two assists for a .833 fielding percentage … recorded two multi-hit performances … went 2-for-2 in his first collegiate appearance at Duke (3/1) … went 1-for-1 on four occasions, including Lafayette (3/4), South Carolina (3/16), Iona (3/23) and Massachusetts (3/26).
Prep Years: Four-year starter at New Hanover High School … Three-time First Team All-Mideastern Conference (2013, 2014 & 2015) … Two-time Star-News All-Area (2014 & 2015) … Two-time member of Region 2 North Carolina State Games Team (2013 & 2014) … Won the Robert Moore Award for team MVP at New Hanover in 2015 … 2013 American Legion World Series Participant … Led New Hanover to Mideastern Conference Championship in 2014 and to playoff appearances in 2014 and 2015 … A member of the AAU National Champions Wilmington Cardinals … Also was a four-year letterwinner, three-year starter in football … Won Most Athletic at New Hanover in 2015 … A member of the National Honor Society and Beta Club.
Personal: Born on Dec. 20, 1996 in Germantown, Tennessee … Son of Jennifer and Edward Coleman … Has a younger sister, Frances … Father, Edward, played baseball at Millsap College and mother, Jennifer, played tennis, field hockey and swam at Salem College ... Political science major.
2018: Started in all 54 games, all coming at third base… posted the walk-off hit against Lafayette (2/18), the same team he recorded his first collegiate walk-off off of… 14 multi-hit games, including three hits each vs. Lafayette in the 2018 opener and Yale (3/10), where he hit first collegiate homer… seven multi-RBI games, including seven in the doubleheader with Yale and three vs. Mount St. Mary’s (3/18), where he also scored three times...doubled and scored vs. Saint Louis in the A-10 tournament (5/24)… finished season on a .260 clip overall with 52 hits, 21 runs, .350 SLG, .351 OBP… third on team with 32 RBI.
2017: Redshirted, did not play.
2016: Started 2 of the 13 games played at third base and was used mainly in pinch hitting situations … finished with 10 hits, two runs scored and one RBI in 19 at bats for a .526 batting average … posted a .526 slugging percentage and a .526 on base percentage … finished with just one error and made three putouts with two assists for a .833 fielding percentage … recorded two multi-hit performances … went 2-for-2 in his first collegiate appearance at Duke (3/1) … went 1-for-1 on four occasions, including Lafayette (3/4), South Carolina (3/16), Iona (3/23) and Massachusetts (3/26).
Prep Years: Four-year starter at New Hanover High School … Three-time First Team All-Mideastern Conference (2013, 2014 & 2015) … Two-time Star-News All-Area (2014 & 2015) … Two-time member of Region 2 North Carolina State Games Team (2013 & 2014) … Won the Robert Moore Award for team MVP at New Hanover in 2015 … 2013 American Legion World Series Participant … Led New Hanover to Mideastern Conference Championship in 2014 and to playoff appearances in 2014 and 2015 … A member of the AAU National Champions Wilmington Cardinals … Also was a four-year letterwinner, three-year starter in football … Won Most Athletic at New Hanover in 2015 … A member of the National Honor Society and Beta Club.
Personal: Born on Dec. 20, 1996 in Germantown, Tennessee … Son of Jennifer and Edward Coleman … Has a younger sister, Frances … Father, Edward, played baseball at Millsap College and mother, Jennifer, played tennis, field hockey and swam at Salem College ... Political science major.
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