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 162 games with 146 starts... Stole 82 bases for fourth most in a career at Wofford with a single-season record of 43 in 2024... Also fourth on Wofford's triples leaderboard with 11, including a record 10 in 2024... Scored the fifth-most runs in program history with 171, including a record 82 in 2024... Added 184 hits, 27 doubles, 13 home runs, 109 RBI and 91 walks... Named First-Team All-Southern Conference in 2024 and was a 2022 Southern Conference All-Freshman Team selection... A three-time member of the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and added Southern Conference All-Academic Team honors in 2024... A two-time member of the Southern Conference All-Tournament Team in 2023 and 2024... Selected by the New York Yankees in the 15th round (pick 451) of the 2024 MLB Draft.Â
2024: Started all 62 games in centerfield… Led team and SoCon with 83 runs, a new program record for a season… Stole 43 bases to lead the SoCon and rank second nationally, also breaking the single-season program record… Posted 10 triples, tops in the conference and second in the nation, another new single-season program record… Led conference with 10 sacrifice bunts and ranked fourth with a .375 batting average… Ranked eighth with 64 RBI and 13th with a .617 slugging percentage… Added 96 hits, 15 doubles, nine home runs and 24 walks… Named All-SoCon First Team by the coaches and media… Named SoCon Player of the Month for February and SoCon Player of the Week on April 8… Opened season with two hits, including a triple, against Towson (2/16) … Reached base five times against Bucknell (2/17) with three hits, including a double, and two walks while adding an RBI and two steals… Posted three hits, a triple, a steal and four RBI against FDU (2/23) … Stole four bases with two RBI against FDU (2/25) … In game two of a doubleheader against Fordham (3/2), scored four runs with three hits and four RBI with a home run, walk and two steals… Posted four RBI with two hits, including a long ball, against Lafayette (3/9) before adding another dinger with two hits, two RBI and three runs the following day against the Leopards (3/10) … Scored four runs in game one of a doubleheader against The Citadel (3/23) … Posted three hits with two steals at VMI (3/30) … Added three more hits at Charleston Southern (4/2) with three runs scored, four RBI, a triple and a homer… At Elon (4/3), scored three runs with three hits and three RBI… Tallied three hits and three RBI against UNCG (4/6) … Posted four hits and a steal at FIU (4/12) … Opened series against Western Carolina (4/26) with six RBI and three runs on three hits, a triple, a home run and a steal… Recorded four hits, three runs and three RBI at Presbyterian (5/7) … Against ETSU (5/12), aided in Wofford’s 10-run comeback victory with six RBI on four hits, including two doubles and two homers with both long balls coming in the fourth inning to become just the fourth Terrier ever with two homers in an inning… Posted three hits with an RBI and a steal at Samford (5/16) … Stole two bases with a double and an RBI against UNCG (5/14) in the SoCon Tournament… In the SoCon Championship against Samford (5/26), posted two hits with a steal in game one before adding three hits, an RBI and another swipe in game two… In Wofford’s first NCAA Tournament win over LIU (6/1) in the Chapel Hill Regional, tallied a hit and stole a base… Added two hits with a run scored against LSU (6/2) in the Chapel Hill Regional… Named to the SoCon All-Tournament Team… Named to the SoCon Academic Honor Roll and the SoCon All-Academic Team.
2023: Started all 54 games played in the outfield… Batted .309 with 64 hits, four home runs, 34 RBI, 60 runs scored and 23 stolen bases… Recorded three hits and two RBI against Southern Illinois (2/18), including a walk-off single… In series finale against the Salukis (2/19), hit first-career home run… In a doubleheader against Sacred Heart (3/4), tallied three hits in both games with four RBI in the first and three in the second, adding three steals and a homer in game one… Had three hits at Winthrop (3/7) … Against VMI (3/25), hit a home run with two RBI… Drove home three runs at Western Carolina (4/14) … Recorded three hits and walk at Winthrop (4/18) … At Davidson (4/26), tallied three hits, including a lead-off home run, with two RBI, a walk and a steal… Stole four bases at Georgia State (5/9) with two hits… Tallied four base knocks against UNCG (5/25) in the SoCon Tournament with two RBI… Against Mercer (5/25) in the SoCon Tournament, recorded three hits and an RBI with a walk… Named to the Southern Conference All-Tournament Team... Named to Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
2022: Played in 46 games with 30 starts, all in the outfield… Posted a .267 average with 24 hits, 28 runs, 11 RBI and 16 stolen bases… Third on team in steals… Named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman Team… Collected first RBI against George Mason (2/19) … Notched first hit against Georgia (3/1) at Fluor Field and stole his first base… Against UNC Asheville (3/2), drove home two runs with a pair of hits while stealing three bases… At Belmont (3/18), picked up two hits and drove in two runs… Picked up two hits against UNCG (4/8), including a double and a triple… At Samford (5/1), collected a pair of hits and scored three runs, and he stole a base… Named to Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
HIGH SCHOOL: A three-year varsity starter at Decatur High School ...During his senior season posted a .390 batting average and a .705 slugging percentage while leading the team in runs scored ... Named All-County Gold Glove and recipient of Silver Slugger award ... Team did not compete in 2020 ... As a sophomore he had a .333 batting average and was named the team’s rookie of the year ... Earned second team All-Region, first team All-County honors and All-County Gold Glove ... Added two tournament MVP honors with Perfect Game, along with four WWBA championships ... Also played wide receiver on the football team.
PERSONAL: Birthday is March 17 ... Son of Eric and Claire Toole ... Majoring in finance.
HONORS & AWARDS
- 2024 Southern Confernece All-Academic Team
- 2023-24 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
- 2024 Southern Conference All-Tournament Team
- 2024 All-Southern Conference First Team
- Southern Conference Player of the Week (4/8/24)
- Southern Conference Player of the Month (February 2024)
- 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
- 2023 Southern Conference All-Tournament Team
- 2022 Southern Conference All-Freshman Team
- 2021-22 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
