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2022 Baseball Roster

VCU Athletics

34 Ben Nippolt

  • Position Infielder
  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 165
  • Class Redshirt Sophomore
  • Hometown St. Paul, Minn.
  • Highschool Mounds Park Academy (Des Moines Area CC)
  • Twitter L/R

Biography

2022/REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE
  • Atlantic 10 Champion
  • First Team All-Atlantic 10
  • Appeared in 51 games, including 45 starts
  • Hit .308 with a .430 on-base percentage and a .407 slugging percentage
  • Collected 53 hits, including 9 doubles, a triple, and 2 home runs, for 48 runs and 31 RBIs
  • Drew 31 walks compared to just 19 strikeouts
  • Added 7 sacrifice bunts, 3 sacrifice flys, and 4 stolen bases
  • Made his VCU debut in a 13-3 win over Lafayette on Feb. 19
  • Went 2-for-4, his first two hits as a Ram, with a run and an RBI in a 17-6 win over Quinnipiac on March 20
  • Went 4-for-5 with a double, a triple, a walk, 4 runs, and 2 RBIs in a 15-5 win at George Mason on April 3
  • Went 3-for-5 with a double, 2 runs, and 2 RBIs in a 6-4 win at VMI on April 12
  • Tallied 3 crucial RBIs in a 3-for-5 game with a double as VCU beat Massachusetts 6-1 on May 15
  • Hit his first home run as a Ram, part of a 2-for-3 performance with 3 RBIs in a 17-1 win over Fordham on May 19
  • Went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and an RBI in an 8-1 win over Georgia at the Chapel Hill Regional on June 3
PRIOR TO VCU
  • All-State senior year (2019), 2x All-conference, Legion District MVP 2019 summer 
  • ICCAC First Team All-Academic 2021 (DMACC) 
PERSONAL
Son of Steve and Pam Nippolt
Siblings: Kelsea Forrester
Major: Psychology
Plans after college: Play professional baseball

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