ScottRouse
- position RHP
- height 6-0
- Weight 180
- class Senior
- Hometown Seven Hills, Ohio
- Previous School Radford
• All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference, Third Team (2021)
• Comeback Athlete of the Year (2024)
• Dean’s List, Radford University (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
PRIOR TO KENTUCKY
Pitched in 18 games with 17 starts at Radford…Went 5-7 with a 5.72 earned run average in 83.1 innings…Struck out 97 and walked 35…Had a career-best 11 strikeouts versus Iona in 2023…Pitches with a hard shell cap after being hit in head with a line drive earlier in his career.
2024 (RADFORD)
Made 14 appearances on the mound, all starts…Went 4-5 with a 5.94 earned run average in 69.2 innings…Allowed 71 hits but struck out 78 batters…Completed 6.0 innings four times…struck out nine three times…Best outing of the season came at High Point University (6 IP, 2 H, R, 4 BB, 5 K).
2023 (RADFORD)
Made four appearances, including three starts, before season was cut short due to injury … Tallied 19 strikeouts in 13.2 IP … Struck out 11 batters over five innings with no earned runs in a win over Iona (Feb. 18) … Fanned six vs. Wagner (Feb. 24).
2021/2022 (OHIO DOMINICAN)
Posted a 4.06 ERA with 79 strikeouts as a sophomore across 12 starts … As a freshman in 2021, named to the Third Team All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference … Pitched to the tune of a 5-3 record with a 4.07 ERA and 60 strikeouts in 66.1 innings … Allowed one run or fewer in four starts … Tossed a one-hit complete game with eight strikeouts against Cedarville (Apr. 2) to earn G-MAC Pitcher of the Week honors.
HIGH SCHOOL
First Team all-conference and all-county selection at Brunswick High School… Named the Brunswick Cy Young award winner … Helped lead the Blue Devils to a district championship in 2019 … Played for head coach Grant Relic … Also played on the basketball team. …In the classroom, earned the Summa Cum Laude academic award.
PERSONAL
Full name is Scott Paul Rouse…Son of Scott and Shelby…Has one sister, Skylar…Grandparents travel to all his games…Working toward a Masters in Marketing.
*Radford Athletics Communications contributed to this bio