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KyussGargett

  • position INF
  • height 6-1
  • Weight 185
  • class Sophomore
  • Hometown Anderson, Ind.
BIO Stats

• All-Perfect Game Collegiate League, Second Team (2023)
• All-USA Central Indiana Super Team
• South District Player of the Year (2023)
• First Team All-City (2023)
• Indiana south all-star team (2023)
• All-USA central Indiana super team (2022, 2021)
•First Team All-City (2022)

 

(Pronounced – KY-us GAR-get)

2024 SUMMER

Played for the Lincoln Potters of the Pacific Empire League…Batted .345 with 13 runs, two doubles and six RBI in 55 AB…Stole two bases…Walked 16 times and struck out just seven times…Posted a .998 OPS… Recorded five multi-hit games and reached base safely in 17 of the 18 games in which he appeared when he got two or more AB.

2024

Appeared in 12 games with five starts…Batted .143 in 21 AB with three runs, a double, a triple, a home run and an RBI…Drew two walks and had two sacrifices…Had a .429 slugging percentage in limited AB…Filled in as the starting SS when Grant Smith was out due to injury…Got his first collegiate hit on March 3 vs. Lipscomb, a triple…His second hit was a double and third a home run.

2023 SUMMER
Appeared in 26 games for the Utica Blue Sox of the Perfect Game Collegiate League, earning 76 at bats and being named Second Team All-PGCBL…Batted .408 with a 1.032 OPS and hit safely in 21 of 26 games…Drew more walks than he had strikeouts and stealing 17 bags.

HIGH SCHOOL
Perfect Game ranked him as a Top 500 recruit nationally and No. 20 in Indiana…Prep Baseball Report ranked him No. 16 in Indiana…Played for Ed Freije at Cathedral in Indianaplois…In 2023, Cathedral was regional champion…In 2022, it was semi-state champion and in 2021, it was sectional champion…Also weighlifted and was involved in powerlifting.

PERSONAL
Full name is Kyuss Parker Gargett…Born in Noblesville, Indiana…Son of Patrick Gargett and Brandy Cook…Has a younger sibling, Legion…One cousin was a Division I wrestler, while another played D-I lacrosse…Held the youth world deadlift record when he was 10…Traveled the country showing off his dogs at dog shows…Former NFL coach and announcer John Madden is a distant cousin…Major is Kinesiology.

 

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