Biography
CAREER: Played 151 games with 127 starts… Hit .339 with 173 hits, 151 runs scored, 134 RBI and 34 home runs… Named Southern Conference Player of the Year in 2023… Two-time All-Southern Conference First-Team selection (2022 and 2023) … Named to CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-American Team in 2022 and 2023... Selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 13th round (pick 389) of the 2023 MLB Draft.
2023: Started all 58 games played at first base… Hit .383 with 88 hits, 15 doubles, 17 home runs, 66 RBI and 73 runs scored… Led team in average, slugging (.670), on-base percentage (.491), runs, hits, RBI, home runs, total bases (154) and walks (40) … Led SoCon in hits, RBI and total bases… Tied Wofford single-season program record for runs scored, and 88 hits were one shy of matching the program single-season record… Named Southern Conference Player of the Year by the coaches and media… Named All-Southern Conference First Team by the coaches and media… Opened season with three hits in each of the three contests against Southern Illinois (2/17-2/19), including a home run in the second game (2/18) … Clubbed two home runs against Kent State (2/26), including a grand slam, with seven total RBI… Drove home three runs with a pair of hits, including a homer, in game two of a doubleheader against Sacred Heart (3/4) … Against Cincinnati (3/8), recorded three hits, including a home run, with three runs driven in… Tallied three hits at Georgia (3/14) … At Georgia Tech (3/21), hit a homer as a part of a three-hit outing, adding a double and an RBI… At Presbyterian (3/29), scored four runs and drove home two with three hits, one of which was a round-tripper… Had three hits and three RBI against Presbyterian (4/11) … Recorded a four-hit affair at Winthrop (4/18) with a homer and three runs knocked in… Against Samford (4/22), tallied three hits and scored three runs… At UNC Asheville (4/25), clobbered a grand slam as part of a two-hit day, driving home the four runs… At No. 2 Wake Forest (4/29), hit a home run and brought home two runs… Had two hits and three RBI at The Citadel (5/19) in game one of a doubleheader, adding a home run… Drove home two runs, hitting a homer against UNCG (5/25) in the SoCon Tournament… Named SoCon Player of the Week twice on Feb. 20 and March 13… Earned the first two SoCon Player of the Month awards in February and March… Named SoCon Student-Athlete of the Week on March 15… Named CSC Academic All-District and CSC Academic All-American Second Team… Semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy, second Terrier ever to be a semifinalist... Named to the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and All-Academic Team.
2022: Started all 59 games at third base… Posted a .329 batting average with 17 home runs, 72 hits, 59 RBI and 66 runs scored… Led team in slugging (.653), runs (66), RBI (59), triples (five), homers (17) and total bases (143) … Among SoCon leaders, was first in triples (five), second in home runs (17), third in runs (66) and slugging (.653) and fifth in RBI (59) and total bases (143)… Named All-Southern Conference First Team by the coaches and media… In season opener against George Mason (2/18), launched first two career homers for first-career multi-homer game, collecting two RBI and four total hits… Collected three RBI against Penn (3/4) with a home run… Tallied two hits against Lafayette (3/14), including a double and a triple… Had three RBI on three hits at USC Upstate (3/22), including a long ball and a double… Had a pair of doubles as part of a three-hit game at Dallas Baptist (4/1) with an RBI… Drove home three runs at Mercer (4/24) with a pair of hits, including a home run… Drove home three runs again at Samford (4/29) with a home run… Had a home run as part of two hits and three RBI against The Citadel (5/6) … Blasted two long balls against Presbyterian (5/11) with three hits total and eight RBI, which tied for second-most all-time in a single game in program history and set the mark for most in a game in Wofford’s Division I era… Opened the series against Western Carolina (5/13) with four hits, including a double, and an RBI… In the series opener at VMI (5/19), collected three hits, including two home runs, with three RBI… In the series finale at VMI (5/21), launched two more home runs as part of another three-hit affair, collecting seven RBI… Hit an RBI triple in the SoCon Tournament opening game against UNCG (5/27) … Named SoCon Player of the Week on May 23… Named to Southern Conference All-Academic Team and Academic Honor Roll… Named CoSIDA Academic All-District and Academic All-American Third Team.
2021: Played in 28 games with ten starts, including nine starts at third base and one start as the designated hitter ... Posted a .196 batting average with 11 hits and 12 runs scored, along with six RBIs ... At Mercer (3/26) drove in two runs on a single ... Added two hits in the first game of the doubleheader at Mercer (3/27) ... At Georgia State ((4/27) had an RBI double in the ninth inning ... At Western Carolina (5/15) drove in a run on a double ... In the Southern Conference Tournament against Western Carolina (5/29) had a single in the eighth inning ... Named to the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
2020: Saw action in six games ... Against Brown (2/22) drove in two runs on a double in the seventh inning ... Added an RBI double against La Salle (3/7) in the eighth inning ... Named to the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
HIGH SCHOOL: A three-year letterman at Archbishop Moeller ... As a senior posted a .388 batting average with 38 hits, 35 runs scored, 22 RBIs and five home runs as the team tied for the league title ... Named first team All-Ohio, first team All-Cincinnati, All-League, Academic All-Ohio and second team All-American by Collegiate Baseball ... During his junior season was named first team All-Conference and honorable mention All-City as he batted .337 with a .425 on base percentage ... The team was 25-7 overall and won league and district championships ... Also lettered three seasons on the soccer team as the goalkeeper, reaching the state finals in 2018 ... Member of the National Honor Society and community service award recipient.
PERSONAL: Born June 20, 2000 ... Son of John and Rici Galanie ... Majoring in computer science and Spanish.
HONORS & AWARDS
- 2019-20 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
- 2020-21 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
- Southern Conference Player of the Week (5/23/22)
- 2022 All-Southern Conference First Team
- 2021-22 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
- 2022 Southern Conference All-Academic Team
- 2022 CoSIDA Academic All-District
- 2022 CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team
- Southern Conference Player of the Week (2/20/23)
- Southern Conference Player of the Month (February 2023)
- Southern Conference Player of the Week (3/13/23)
- Southern Conference Student-Athlete of the Week (3/15/23)
- Southern Conference Player of the Month (March 2023)
- 2023 CSC Academic All-District
- 2023 CSC Academic All-America Second Team
- 2023 Dick Howser Trophy Semifinalist
- 2023 Southern Conference Player of the Year
- 2023 All-Southern Conference First Team
- 2023 Southern Conference All-Academic Team
- 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
