Maddix Dalena

Position:
Right-Handed Pitcher/First Baseman
Height:
6-3
Weight:
218
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Montoursville, Pa.
High School:
Montoursville Area

2025 Season: Preseason BIG EAST Player of the Year. Played in 11 games and made eight starts. Hit .176 with two doubles and four RBI. Went 2-5 with an RBI double against Penn State (2/16). Collected three hits and two runs batted in at FAU (2/22). Played in his last game on March 15 against Campbell before a wrist injury ended his season.

2024 Summer Ball: Played in 23 games for the Mystic Schooners in the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Slashed .292/.426/.431…Recorded 21 hits including seven doubles and a home run while driving in 13. Recorded a hit in 17 games and reached base safely in 21 games.. Produced four multi-hit efforts. Named to the 2024 NECBL All-Star game.

2024 Season: Second Team All-BIG EAST. Played in 55 games and made 54 starts, primarily at first base in 2024. Hit .242 with 12 doubles, 13 home runs and drove in 43 runs batted in. Second on the team with 13 multi-RBI games. Posted 13 multi-hit games. Registered his first career three-hit game with three runs batted in at Cal Baptist (3/17). Hit his first home run of the year as part of a two-hit day at Rutgers (3/23). Went 2-3 with a pair of doubles vs. Boston College (3/26). Notched his first career multi-homer game with a pair of home runs vs. Xavier (4/5). Homered the following day vs. the Musketeers (4/6). Clubbed a pair of doubles in victory vs. Bryant (4/9). Homered in win vs. Maine (4/10). Smashed three home runs and drove in career-high five RBI vs. St John's (4/12). Collected three hits and drove in three with double and homer vs. Hofstra (4/24). Drove in four runs with homer and double vs. Creighton (5/10). Homered in back-to-back games at Butler (4/16-4/17). Hit a two-run homer in Regional Final at No. 9 Oklahoma (6/3) to help lift Huskies to Norman Regional title.

2023 Season: Played in 30 games and made 13 starts at first base and designated hitter in his first season in Storrs. Hit .254 with one double, one triple, three home runs and 11 runs batted in. Did not commit an error in his 68 chances at first. In his first collegiate game, hit a two-run home run for his first collegiate hit vs. Ohio State (2/19). Recorded a pinch-hit single in ninth inning of comeback win vs. Cal Poly (2/24). Notched his first multi-hit game at FAU (3/5) with a pair of hits and a run scored. Registered pinch hit singles in back-to-back games at San Diego State (3/17-18). Went 2-3 with a home run and career-high three runs batted in at Villanova (4/29). Homered against Seton Hall (5/7) to help Huskies sweep the series. Doubled, tripled and drove in a pair in a win vs. Hofstra (5/7). In his first NCAA Tournament game, delivered a pinch-hit RBI single vs. Texas Tech (6/2) in NCAA Gainseville Regional.