2024 Baseball Roster
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Pulliam, Ethan

Jersey Number 41
Ethan Pulliam
- Position:
- INF/OF
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-2 / 190
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Starkville, Miss.
- High School/Previous School:
- Starkville HS
Bio
Honors / Awards
2024 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll2024 (Freshman Season)
Season: Played in 27 games with 20 starts … Made 16 starts at second base, three in right field and one at DH … Made 66 plate appearances and grabbed 15 hits, 11 RBIs, five doubles and a home run … Finished with a .227 batting average and .348 slugging percentage … Made his first Diamond Dawg start on April 16 against Alcorn State … Hit his first home run of the his career at Arkansas on May 12 … Had five multi-hit games on the season and one multi-RBI game … Drove in a career-high four runs on May 12 at Arkansas.
Air Force (2/18): Made a single plate appearance in the pinch hitter role. Jackson State (2/27): Entered the game in right field. Evansville (3/10): Drove in first collegiate run in a single plate appearance. South Alabama (3/12): Came in the game as a pinch runner. Central Arkansas (4/2): Scored a run as a pinch runner. Alcorn State (4/16): Made first career start … Went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Auburn (4/19-21): Finished the series 3-for-9 at the plate with a run scored and an RBI. Memphis (4/23): Batted out first career double … Ended the matchup 2-for-3 with an RBI. Vanderbilt (4/26-28): Went 2-for-4 in game two of the series with a double, run scored and an RBI … Ended the series 3-for-11. Ole Miss (5/1): Picked up a hit through four at bats. Alabama (5/3-5): Scored and drove in a run in eight plate appearances. Arkansas (5/10-12): Hit first career home run in game three and finished 3-for-4 in the batter’s box … Drove in career-high four runs in game three … Ended the series 3-for-10 with a pair of doubles. North Alabama (5/14): Picked up fifth double of the season … Went 1-for-3 in the midweek action. Missouri (5/16-18): Grabbed an RBI through eight at bats.
High School
Played at Starkville High School for coach Luke Adkins … Helped guide Starkville High to a runner-up finish in baseball in his sophomore season … Lost his freshman year of high school to the COVID pandemic … Had several individual accolades, earning Crossroads Baseball All-Star Team selection, NEMCABB All-Star Baseball Team selection, Starkville Daily Baseball Player of the Year, MVP of the Crossroads Baseball All-Star Game and MVP of the NEMCABB All-Star Baseball Game … Hit over .350 batting average every year except the COVID year in high school, going as high as .466 his senior year … Earned a five-star rating being the No. 1 punter in the state of Mississippi and the No. 9 rated punter in the country his senior year … Also captured the 2022 6A football state championship.
Personal
Full name is Ethan Christopher Pulliam … Born on October 5, 2004, in Starkville, Mississippi … Son of Chris and Mashala, and brother to Kylan … His cousins, CoEric Riley and Mark McLaurin, both played football at State … Has three cousins who play or have played football professionally and who have come from the state of Mississippi: AJ Brown (Ole Miss, Philadelphia Eagles), Tom Johnson III (University of Southern Mississippi, Minnesota Vikings), Alonzo Lawrence (University of Southern Mississippi, Edmonton Eskimos) … Majoring in Business Administration.
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