2025 Baseball Roster
Jersey Number 16
Will Bermudez
- Position:
- INF
- Ht./Wt.:
- 5-10 / 185
- B/T:
- S/R
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Whittier, Calif.
- Prev School:
- UC Davis / Mt. San Antonio College
- Major:
- Psychological Science
2024
PREP
PERSONAL
- All-Big West Second Team
- Big West Field Player of the Week April 22
- Hit. 301 (62-for-206) with 12 doubles, 3 triples, 4 HR, 48 RBI, and 43 runs scored
- 25 hit by pitch ranked second on the team
- Two 5-RBI games on March 8 vs. Columbia and April 20 at San Diego State
- Two streaks of 9 games with a hit and a 9-game run scored streak
- Named 1 of 3 finalist for the ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Award for second basemen
- In 213 total chances at second base, committed just two errors for the top fielding percentage among middle infielders at .991, and seventh with 122 assists
- Hit .250 with 43 hits, 44 runs scored, eight doubles, two triples, two home runs, and 28 RBIs starting all 49 games he played
- Led the team and Big West with 21 hit by pitch, fourth-most in a season in program history
- Season highs of three hits and four runs came in a win at Arizona State, added a four-RBI game vs. UC Riverside
- Homered in consecutive at-bats on February 24 vs. Washington State and then on February 26 vs. UNLV
- 2023 Alaska Baseball League champion with the Anchorage Glacier Pilots over summer ball with UCI teammates Max Martin and Jacob Stinson
- 16 hits in 23 games played including 20 runs scored, five doubles, one triple, five RBIs, and seven steals
- Named the league's Gold Glove defensive player
- Caught a fish barehanded while playing in Alaska
- Played for the Yuba-Sutter Gold Sox in the summer of 2022 in the Great West League
- Attended Mt. San Antonio College for the 2022 season
- Four-time honor roll with distinction
- Spanish Gold award
- Dean's List
- Reached CCCAA First Round Regional Playoffs
- South Coast Conference champions with a 33-10 overall record and 19-5 conference record
- First Team All-Conference
- Played 41 games hitting .373
- Added 4 home runs, 33 RBI, 55 runs scored, and 15 stolen bases
- Attended UC Davis for the 2021 season but did not play
PREP
- Played shortstop and received All-Del Rey League First Team, All-Area First Team and MVP awards
- Batted .432, recorded 38 hits, 22 runs and stole 19 bases that season
- Named Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore
- In 2018, he hit .306 and earned all-league accolades
- Pitched and played shortstop throughout his junior year; that season’s honor roll included all-conference first team, All-Area Second Team, All-Southern Section Division III Second Team and MVP honors
- Posted the following stats that year: .414 avg., 36 hits, 32 runs, 15 stolen bases, 1.44 ERA in 24.1 IP, 25 K, 6 BB and 3 Sv
- Also held the highest GPA on the team
- His baseball team won the first of back-to-back league titles during his junior season
- SPHS also won a Southern Section championship his senior season, once that saw him pitch and play shortstop
- Named to the CBCA All-Southern Section Division III Team and received the Don Ward Memorial Award and Outstanding Athlete of the Year
- In his final season at SPHS, he batted .269, finished with 10 runs, one home run, two stolen bases, a 3.21 ERA and only allowed two earned runs.
PERSONAL
- One older brother
- First-Generation College Student
- Majoring in psychology with a minor in sociology
- Aspires to be a psychiatrist to help people that can't mentally help themselves much like him and his epilepsy
- Has coached in the Challenger Program coaching disabled kids to play baseball
- Most people do not know that he suffered a traumatic head injury while playing a summer baseball game, entering his senior year, which forced him to miss five months and develop epilepsy
- Defying the odds of not being able to play baseball and earning a Division I scholarship are one of his two proudest personal accomplishments
- Committing to the Air Force Academy on a full ride during his sophomore year was another; he was medically disqualified once he was diagnosed with epilepsy…
- Fan of Ken Griffey Jr., Pete Rose, Rafael Furcal, and the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Enjoys watching his favorite movie Hardball, listening to Vincente Fernandez, playing the euphonium, and was in a band for three years
- Loves eating Pupusas, and favorite animal is the honey badger
- Hobbies include juggling, fishing, golfing, coaching challenger program, and recent began an internship with PureGame
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