Gavin Casas

AWARDS

• NCAA Columbia Regional Most Valuable Player (2023)
• NCAA All-Columbia Regional team (2023)
• Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List (2023)
• SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll (2023)

JUNIOR (2023)

• Played and started in 61 games for the Gamecocks in 2023
• Hit .259 with 60 runs scored, 10 doubles, 19 home runs and 56 RBI
• Had a .569 slugging percentage and a .407 on-base percentage
• Walked 41 times and was hit by 14 pitches
• Had seven home runs in SEC play
• Had 14 multi-hit games and 16 multi-RBI performances
• Reached base in 19 straight games from Feb. 25-March 16
• Was 4-for-5 with two doubles and a home run in a win over Missouri (March 25)
• Drove in five runs after a 3-for-4 day at USC Upstate (March 8)
• Went a perfect 3-for-3 with three RBI in an NCAA Tournament win over Central Connecticut State (June 2)
• Drove in a pair of runs in a win over NC State (June 3) and ended the regional with three runs scored vs. Campbell (June 4)
• Homered twice and drove in three at Kentucky (May 6)
• Had four RBI in a win over Charleston Southern (April 18)
• Homered twice in a series-clinching win over Clemson (March 5)
• Was 3-for-5 with a double and a home run vs. Queens (Feb. 22)
• Had three home runs in the series-opening sweep of UMass Lowell (Feb. 17-19)
• Went for three hits and two RBI in a win at Mississippi State (April 1)
• Homered twice and scored four runs in a win at Georgia (March 19)

PRIOR TO CAROLINA

• Attended Vanderbilt University for two years, where he hit .279 with 15 RBI in 31 games played
• Played in 22 games with 13 starts in 2022, hitting .294 with a home run, three doubles and 14 RBI
• Homered, doubled and drove in four vs. Wagner (March 13, 2022)
• Drove in four runs in the SEC opener vs. Missouri (March 18, 2022)
• Notched his first collegiate hit against Georgia State on Feb. 28, 2021
• Had a pinch-hit RBI double against UIC (March 5, 2021)
• Graduated from American Heritage High School in Pembroke Pines, Fla., where he was the nation’s fifth-ranked first baseman by Perfect Game in 2020
• Had a .500 batting average with five doubles, three home runs and eight RBI in the COVID-shortened 2020 season
• Had 13 doubles and four home runs in his junior season in 2019
• Two-time First Team All-American
• Two-time 6A-15 All-District
• 2020 Perfect Game Preseason All-American
• 2019 Perfect Game Preseason Underclassmen All-American

PERSONAL

• Born on April 6, 2001
• Son of Jose Casas and Ursulina Schwartz
• Brother, Triston, plays for the Boston Red Sox and was a first round draft pick by the club in 2018
• Major is services management