Luke Broadhurst

Photo by: Colby Rush

Position:
Infielder
Height:
6-2
Weight:
215
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Stafford Springs, Conn.
Prev School:
Eastern Connecticut State/UConn
High School:
Stafford

2024 Season: First Team All-BIG EAST. Second Team ABCA All-Northeast Region. NCAA Norman Regional All-Tournament team. Started all 55 games he played in, primarily at third base for the Huskies. His 29 career home runs in two seasons with UConn places him eighth in program history for round trippers. Hit .303 with 10 doubles, two triples and a team-best 15 home runs. His 58 runs batted in and .587 slugging percentage also led the team. Led the Huskies with 16 multi-RBI games. After missing the first two weeks of the season due to injury, came back against No. 23 Auburn (3/2-3/3) and went 6-10 with three walks and four RBI. Hit his first home run of the year, a three-run homer, to help lift the Huskies to a victory at UCLA (3/12). Went 2-4 with a home run in rubber game victory at Cal Baptist (3/17). Homered and drove in three vs. LIU (3/20). Notched three hits that featured two home runs, a double and three runs batted in vs. Bryant (4/9). Followed it up the next day vs. Maine (4/10) with three more hits including a home run. Homered for the third-straight game vs. St. John's (4/12). Hit a go-ahead home run in the ninth inning at Georgetown (4/19). Registered a three-hit game vs. Villanova (4.28). Recorded three hits including a home run and drove in thee vs. Creighton. (5/11). Came a triple shy of the cycle as part of three-hit game at Butler (5/16). Went 2-3 with a home run at No. 9 Oklahoma (6/1) in NCAA Norman Regional. Collected a pair of hits in Game 1 of NCAA Tallahassee Super Regional at No 8 Florida State (6/7). Followed it up with a four-hit game and career-high six RBI in Game 2 of NCAA Tallahassee Super Regional at No. 8 Florida State (6/8) that featured a two-run homer and bases-clearing double. Finished the NCAA Tournament with 11 runs batted in, ranking second all-time in program history.

2023 Season: Second Team All-BIG EAST. Second Team All-New England. Played in 60 games and made 57 starts as the team's designated hitter. Hit .312 with 13 doubles, one triple, 14 home runs and 51 runs batted in. He ranked second on the team in homers, slugging (.590) and on-base percentage (.441). Also stole nine bases in 11 attempts. Recorded 17 multi-hit games and 13 multi-RBI performances. The only Husky to have multiple multi-homer games in 2023. His first standout performance came against Cal Poly (2/24) with a three-hit game that featured a pair of solo home runs and an RBI double. Went 6-15 at Hawaii (3/10-13) with three doubles, one homer and seven RBIs. Had a season-high 15-game hit streak from 3/18-4/15. Hit a go-ahead home run vs. Rugters to help sweep series vs. Scarlet Knights (3/26). Posted a three-hit game with three RBIs vs. UMBC (4/2). Hit a three-run homer at Dunkin' Donuts Park vs. CCSU (4/10). Had a four-hit day at Xavier (4/14) that featured a pair of home runs and three runs batted in. Registered a pair of hits including a home run and drove in three runs to help defeat No. 20 Boston College (4/19). Hit a walk-off, two-run home run vs. Butler (5/13) to secure a series win against the Bulldogs. Hit a game-tying home run vs. Georgetown (5/23) in the BIG EAST Championship. Notched a three-hit performance vs. Xavier (5/24) in the BIG EAST Championship. Collected an RBI single vs. No. 2 Florida (6/4) in NCAA Gainesville Regional.

Grad transfer from Eastern Connecticut State.

2022: Led Eastern Connecticut to D3 National Championship. Fourth Team D3Baseball All-American. LEC Player of the Year, becoming the third player in LEC history to win the award multiple times. ABCA/Rawlings Region 2 Player of the Year. First Team All-LEC. Led the team with a .406 AVG, 1.295 OPS and 13 home runs. In 46 games, clubbed 12 doubles, four triples, scored 60 runs and drove in 50.

2021: Earned second varsity letter… 2^nd team ABCA All-America and 1^st team D3Baseball.com All-America… ABCA New England Player-of-the-Year… 1^st team New England ABCA/Rawlings All-Region… LEC Player-of-the-Year… 1^st team All-LEC… ECSU Team Sport Male Athlete-of-the-Year… 2x LEC Player of the Week on April 18^th and May 2^nd… 2^nd team CoSIDA Academic All-America… 1^st team CoSIDA Academic All-District… LEC All-Academic… ECSU Outstanding Scholar-Athlete award-winner… started 39/40 games in the cleanup spot and 37/40 as third baseman… led team in batting average (.397), triples (4), slugging percentage (.766), walks (27), and on-base percentage (.514)… tied for team lead in runs scored with 47 and hit-by-pitches with 9… added 11 homeruns and 43 RBIs while tallying 108 total bases … had 19 multi-hit and 11 multi-RBI games…

2019: Earned first varsity letter…Second-Team All LEC…LEC Rookie of the Week on April 7^th…appeared in 34 games, 32 as a starter…started 13 games at 1B and 10 games in RF…batted in the No. 3 spot 12 times and No. 2 spot 9 times…batted .319 with 36 hits and 26 RBI…had a .988 fielding average…had 9 multiple hit games and 6 multiple RBI games… with a season high hitting streak of 12, batted .473 (18-38)…in LEC regular season play, appeared in 13 games, 12 as a starter while batting .410 with 16 hits and 14 RBI…in LEC tournament play, appeared and started in all 3 games, batting .182 with 2 hits and 1 RBI…

High School: Shortstop who was a four-year baseball starter and who played two seasons of basketball... in baseball, three-time, first-team Class "S" All-State and all-conference... member of conference title team in baseball as a sophomore... two-year conference all-academic... in baseball, set program career record with 118 hits and season record with 29 stolen bases...

Other: Four-year member of Tolland Zone 8 American Legion program, helping teams to two zone titles and a state second-place finish...