2024 Baseball Roster

Nathanial Barbee, VMI Athletic Communications
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9 Cole Jenkins

  • Position Infielder/Outfielder
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 210
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Mechanicsville, Va.
  • Highschool Lee Davis

Biography

2024: Played and started in 49 games in the outfield…named Preseason All-SoCon First-Team Outfielder…slashed .277/.424/.337 with 51 hits, 30 runs, 10 doubles, and five homers.

2023 (Junior)
  • Hit .350 while starting all 55 games, ripped 11 home runs and 19 doubles to go with 50 RBI and 47 runs
  • A first-team All-Southern Conference OF and second-team all-state
  • Earned the Perfect Game/Rawlings and Southern Conference Player of the Week Awards and was also named one of Collegiate Baseball's National Players of the Week on April 10
  • The SoCon Player of the Month for April
  • Ranked in the conference's top 10 for slugging %, doubles and total bases.
  • Went 8-12 in the Samford series 4/28-29 with a triple and a home run
  • Tormented the Mercer pitching staff 4/21-23; .571 BA, 1 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR, 5 R, 8 RBI, 1.214 SLG %
  • Drilled four home runs (two in each game) and finished the day with six hits and six RBI in a doubleheader sweep of Western Carolina on 4/6. 
  • Had a huge three-game series at Wofford; .545 BA, 2 2B, 4 RBI, .727 SLG %
2022: Hit .274 in 36 games and 34 starts, splitting time defensively between the infield and outfield … had six doubles, scored 17 runs and drove in 19 … was 6-7 in stolen base opportunities … reached base safely in all four AB vs. Wofford on 5/20, 2 H, 1 BB, 1 HBP … had back-to-back big games against Va. Tech and Radford 3/29-30 with five hits ... he had two hits in the fourth inning at Radford … was 3-5 with a homer and four RBI on 2/26 vs. Lafayette.

2021: Hit .266 in 26 games and 19 starts in the infield and DH, hitting four home runs … smacked a pair of home runs against Norfolk St. on 5/11, went 3-5 with four RBI on the night … hit a solo home run at VCU on 4/27 … went 2-4 with a triple, two runs and four RBI as the DH against Mercer in game 2 on 4/17 … hit his first collegiate home run Feb. 25 vs. NJIT; went 2-3 with three RBI.

Before VMI: A three-year letterman for Tyler Johnson at Lee Davis High School … .385 Batting Average, 3 homeruns, 33 RBI … also a two-year letterman for Davis Ellenburger in volleyball … was 1st Team All Region and 2nd Team All State in volleyball.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 9

    2021Freshman

    Infielder
    6'4" 185 lbs
    9
  • 9

    2022Sophomore

    Infielder
    6'4" 185 lbs
    9
  • 9

    2023Junior

    Infielder/Outfielder
    6'3" 210 lbs
    9
  • 9

    2024Senior

    Infielder/Outfielder
    6'3" 210 lbs
    9