Biography
Member of the 2024 Southern Conference Tournament championship team that earned the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament win in the Chapel Hill Regional.
CAREER: Played in 177 games with 165 starts over three seasons… Recorded a .358 batting average with 224 hits, 34 doubles, eight triples and six home runs… Added 142 runs, 143 RBI, 76 walks and 42 stolen bases… Tied for 11th on Wofford’s all-time hits leaderboard… Owns the program’s single-season hits record with 97 in 2024… Twice named to the Southern Conference All-Tournament Team.
2024: Started all 62 games at second base… Recorded a single-season program record with 97 hits, topping the SoCon and ranking seventh nationally… Led team and ranked second in the conference with 20 doubles, and his .380 batting average was third in the league… Scored 63 runs (eighth in SoCon) and notched four triples (fourth in SoCon)… Added four home runs, 24 walks and 15 stolen bases… Recorded three hits and three RBI against Towson (2/18) … Hit first home run of season in game one of a doubleheader against Fordham (3/2) as part of a two-hit, two-run, one-RBI day in which he added a double… Recorded three hits and an RBI at Charleston (3/16) … Posted three hits, including a double, and an RBI in back-to-back games at Georgia (3/19) and game one of a doubleheader against The Citadel (3/23) … At Charleston Southern (4/2), posted three hits with a homer, two RBI and four runs scored… Tallied four hits, including a long ball, with three RBI at North Florida (4/10) … Posted four RBI on three hits, including a homer and a double, against Presbyterian (4/16) … Notched 200th career hit at Presbyterian (5/7) … Against ETSU (5/12) on senior day, tallied two hits and two RBI… In the SoCon Tournament against ETSU (5/25), posted three hits with an RBI before adding three more hits with an RBI and walk against Samford (5/26) in game one of the SoCon Championship… In game two of the SoCon Championship against the Bulldogs (5/26), tallied two hits with a run knocked in… Against LSU (5/31) in the Chapel Hill Regional, recorded three hits, including a double… Tallied two hits and scored a run against LSU (6/2) in an elimination game in the Chapel Hill Regional… Named to the SoCon All-Tournament Team.
2023: Started all 58 games played at second base… Hit .352 with 75 hits, 45 RBI, 45 runs scored and 16 steals… Named to the Preseason All-Southern Conference First Team… Posted a four-hit outing against Southern Illinois (2/19) with two RBI… Drove home three runs on two hits against Kent State (2/24) … Had two runs driven in on two hits against Winthrop (2/28) … Tallied three hits and an RBI at Georgia Tech (3/21) … At Presbyterian (3/29), drove home three runs and scored twice with two hits, one a double… In game two of a doubleheader against Siena (4/1), stole three bases… Posted a four-hit game at Winthrop (4/18) with an RBI… Against Samford (4/22), recorded three hits and three runs batted in… At Georgia State (5/9), tallied three hits and drove home a pair of runs… Against Mercer (5/25) in the SoCon Tournament, scored twice and brought home two runs with four hits, including a double… Added three hits in the next round against Samford (5/26) … Named to the Southern Conference All-Tournament Team.
2022: Played in 57 games with 45 starts, all at second base… Posted a .331 batting average with 52 hits, 41 RBI and 34 runs scored… Recorded first hit and RBI with the Terriers against George Mason (2/19) … Made first start at second base against UNC Asheville (3/2), drawing two walks and driving in a run… Notched two hits and an RBI against Gardner-Webb (3/25) … At Dallas Baptist (4/2), collected three hits and then turned out four hits with three RBI two games later at Tarleton (4/5) … Tallied three hits and an RBI at Presbyterian (4/19) … Turned in three more hits with a run batted in at Clemson (4/27) … At Samford (5/1), recorded a career-high four RBI with two hits, including his first homer with the Terriers… Against The Citadel (5/6), hit another home run for two RBI… Collected three RBI on two hits against Presbyterian (5/11) … At VMI (5/19), deposited three hits to drive in three runs while scoring three runs himself… Drove in two RBI in the SoCon Tournament against Samford (5/28).
BEFORE WOFFORD: Played one season at MSU Denver and one season at South Mountain Community College .. At South Mountain in 2021, appeared in 45 games and led the team with a .339 batting average, 39 runs and 19 stolen bases ... While at MSU Denver in 2020, started 15 games in the infield and was second on the team with a .350 batting average.
HIGH SCHOOL: Played three years on the varsity team at Cherry Creek High School ... Named All-state first team and All-Centennial League first team ... Played in Colorado Rockies Futures Game ... As a senior, batted .411 for Class 5A state runners-up ... For three-year varsity career, batted .349 ... As a sophomore, played for Bruins team that finished third at Class 5A state tournament.
PERSONAL: Birthday is August 3 ... Son of Rod and Wendy Martinez ... Majoring in finance.
HONORS & AWARDS
- 2024 Southern Conference All-Tournament Team
- 2023 Southern Conference All-Tournament Team
