ColeHage

• All-Ivy League, First Team (2022, 2023, 2024)
• Ivy League Player of the Week (twice)
• Academic All-District (College Sports Communicators; 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Academic All-Ivy League (2024)
• Core Values Award

PRIOR TO KENTUCKY
A three-time member of the All-Ivy League First Team and standout in the classroom, he has played in and started 176 games in his career…Career .331 hitter with 33 doubles, 26 home runs and 102 RBI in three seasons…Has a .577 career slugging percentage and 1.032 OPS with 24 steals in 33 attempts with 39 HBP.

2024 (COLUMBIA)
Appeared in and started 42 games… Team captain… First Team All-Ivy League selection for the third straight year… Ranked in the top five among Ivy League hitters in slugging percentage, on-base percentage, OPS, runs scored, home runs, and hit by pitches… His double in the second inning of the series finale against Princeton on 5/4 set a new single-season program record… Led the team in walks (27) and was second on the team in home runs (13)… Had a team-high 35-game reached base streak… Ivy League Player of the Week (3/25)… Academic All-Ivy recipient… Received the Core Values Award… Named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team for the third straight season.

2023 (COLUMBIA)
Appeared in 40 games and made 35 starts… First Team All-Ivy League selection for the second straight year… Hit .385 in 18 conference games on the season… Had the highest on-base percentage (.500) in Ivy League play… Led the team in batting average, OPS, slugging percentage, and on-base percentage in conference play… Tied his career-high with four hits in a game twice (4/4 vs. UConn & 4/22 vs. Dartmouth)… Had a multi-home run game on 4/4 vs. UConn… Ivy League Player of the Week on April 10… Named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team for the second straight season.

2022 (COLUMBIA)
Appeared and started in 48 games… Was a unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection… Had the second-highest batting average on the team (.335)… Tallied 60 hits in (21 for extra bases) along with 37 runs batted in… Recorded a multi-homer game in the season opener against Stetson… Named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team.

HIGH SCHOOL
A 2020 graduate of Davies High School … Three-time letter winner with the Eagles … All-conference and all-state right fielder in 2019 … Holds Davies’ single-season batting average record (.491), set in 2019 … Helped Post 2 Legion team get to American Legion World Series and place second … Team Captain 2020 and 2019….Also played basketball and football…Three-time basketball region champions and first team all-conference…Baseball Gatorade Player of the Year in 2020 for North Dakota.

PERSONAL
Full name is Cole Fredrick Hage…Son of Fredrick and Heidi…Has a sister, Christina…Undergraduate degree from Columbia in Psychology and Business Management…Pursuing a graduate degree at Kentucky in Public Financial Management…
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