2019 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Drafted in the 8th Round (251st overall) by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2019 MLB Draft ... ABCA Third Team All-American ... ABCA All-Northeast First Team ... NEIBA All-New England First Team ... All-NEC First Team ... Appeared in 58 games and made 57 starts ... Hit .382 with 95 hits, 15 doubles, 13 home runs, 51 RBI, 59 runs scored and 153 total bases ... Walked 30 times, struck out just 17 times and posted a .450 OBP ... Stole 12 bases and played errorless defense in left field ... Set DI single-season program record for home runs ... Became first player in program history with multiple seasons of 90+ hits ... First player in program history with 50+ RBI and 50+ runs scored in back-to-back seasons ... Fastest player to reach 200 career hits in program history, becoming the 20th member of the club ... 95 hits are the second-most in a single season, 59 runs scored are tied for the third most and total bases are the second most ... His .383 career average is the highest in DI program history, while his 206 hits are sixth, his 23 home runs are tied for second, his 111 RBIs are 10th and his 326 total bases are fourth ... Posted a team-high 30 multi-hit games and 14 multi-RBI games ... Reached base safely in each of the final 32 games of the season ... Hit .410 in NEC-only games ... Three hits and three RBI at No. 1 LSU on Feb. 23 ... 4-for-4 with a double, a home run, three RBI, two walks and two runs scored at Wofford ... 3-for-5 with four runs scored at Hartford on Mar. 20 ... 4-for-5 with a double and a home run vs. FDU on Apr. 6 ... Named Collegiate Baseball Newspaper National Player of the Week on Apr. 15 after going 12-for-22 with four doubles, two home runs, nine RBI and seven runs scored in five games ... Posted multiple hits in all five games ... Homered in back-to-back games vs. Hartford on Apr. 12-13 ... Homered in all three games at CCSU, including twice in the series finale ... Four hits and two RBI at Sacred Heart on May 16 .. Two home runs, two RBI and three runs scored in series finale at SHU.
2018 (Redshirt Freshman)
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Co-National Freshman Player of the Year
NCBWA District I Player of the Year
ABCA Second Team All-American
Perfect Game/Rawlings Second Team All-American
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Third Team All-American
NCBWA Third Team All-American
D1Baseball.com First Team Freshman All-American
Perfect Game/Rawlings First Team Freshman All-American
NCBWA First Team Freshman All-American
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All-American
ABCA First Team All-Northeast
New England Baseball Journal Player of the Year
ECAC Rookie of the Year
NEIBA New England Player and Rookie of the Year
NEC Player and Rookie of the Year
All-ECAC First Team
All-New England First Team
All-NEC First Team
Enjoyed the greatest season in program history ... Appeared in and started all 56 games ... Started 24 games at second, 24 games in left and eight in center ... Became first player in DI program history to hit over .400 (.409) for the season ... Set program records for hits (101) and total bases (157) ... Added 22 doubles, five triples, eight home runs, 52 RBI and 51 runs scored ... Struck out just 10 times on the year ... Finished 9-for-12 in stolen bases ... Hit .451 (55-122) with just one strikeout in NEC play ... Posted 29 multi-hit games and 13 multi-RBI games ... Had 12 two-hit games, 12 three-hit games and five four-hit games ... Posted a program-record 30-game hitting streak during the season ... Also reached base in 40-straight games ... Led off the game with a home run three times ... Made just one error on the year (.992 fielding percentage) ... Collected two hits in the season opener at Arizona after missing nearly a full year due to injury ... Delivered walk-off single vs. Boston College on March 3 ... Drove in three runs and stole three bases vs. Niagara (March 4) ... Hit a grand slam at Delaware (March 16) ... Started his 30-game hitting streak on March 17 with two hits at Delaware ... Led off with a home run at Wagner on March 25 ... Hit a decisive two-run home run in the seventh at Brown on March 27 ... Led off with a home run vs. Mount on March 31 ... Had four hits, three doubles, two RBI and three runs scored at LIU Brooklyn (April 7) ... Collected four hits, two home runs, six RBI and four runs scored at Fairleigh Dickinson (April 13) ... Homered and drove in four the following day ... Finished the series vs. FDU 13-for-22 with five doubles, three home runs and 10 RBI ... Three hits and three RBI vs. Mount in the NEC Tournament ... Named to the NEC All-Tournament Team.
2017 (Freshman)
Started each of the first 10 games of the season in left field before suffering a season-ending injury ... Hit .238 (10-42) with two home runs, eight RBI and four runs scored over the first 10 games ... Collected a hit and an RBI in his collegiate debut on Feb. 17 ... Hit two home runs and drove in four in the second game of his career at New Mexico State ... First Bryant freshman since 2010 to post a multi-homer game ... Named NEC Rookie of the Week following his performance at New Mexico State ... Posted two hits and an RBI in the series opener against Arkansas ... Injured his wrist attempting to make a diving catch in the series finale at Liberty.
Before Bryant
A member of the varsity baseball team at Millbury Memorial since eighth grade … A SWCL All-Star all five years … Two-year team captain … Named to the Worcester Telegram and Gazette Superteam as a junior and a senior … Named T&G Player of the Year as a senior after striking out only once all season ... Drove in 29 runs, scored 30, posted a .682 OBP and a 1.185 slugging ... Hit .525 with a .898 slugging percentage, 31 hits, seven doubles, three triples, three home runs, 26 runs, 19 RBI and 14 stolen bases as a junior … Also a member of the varsity golf team … Honor Roll student.
Personal
The son of Carl Ward, Melissa Ward-Faherty and Jenn Ward ... Has two sisters, Kelcee and Kaitlyn Twomey ... Father played four years of baseball at Worcester State ... Aunt, Ellen Ward, played four years of soccer at Curry College.
