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Jersey Number 18
Alan Roden
- Position:
- Outfielder
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 215
- Class:
- Redshirt Freshman
- Hometown:
- Middleton, Wis.
- High School:
- Middleton HS
Bio
2021 (Freshman)
- Roden raked .378 /.476 /.685 in 143 at bats with nine home runs, 47 RBI, and 17 doubles in his first full collegiate season, earning him First-Team Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball.
- Alan was named BIG EAST Freshman of the Year and First Team All-BIG EAST with the second-best slash line in league play of .421 /.516 /.737 while leading the conference in RBI (47), runs scored (39), doubles (17), and total bases (98).
- A starter in each of the Bluejays’ 39 games, Roden spent the majority of the first half at DH before moving to the outfield later in the season.
- Alan finished 2021 ranking among the nation’s top-15 individuals in doubles per game (.44) and top-25 in RBI per game (1.21).
- Roden was the liveliest bat in the Bluejays lineup in 2021, leading the team in hits (54), average (.378), OBP (.476), SLG% (.685), runs scored (39), RBI (47), doubles (17), home runs (9), and total bases (98).
- Alan delivered 19 multi-hit games, including six with three hits or more.
- On opening day, in just his second career start, Roden launched a home run and finishing with a 3-3 line and five RBI in a Feb 26 win at Lipscomb.
- In an eight-inning mercy rule of Villanova on April 10, Alan knocked in seven RBI while falling a triple short of the cycle in a 3-4 performance with one walk and two runs scored.
- In a May 20 home loss to Xavier Roden got on base six times, recording four hits in as many at bats, adding two base-on-balls (one intentional) to finish with a 4-4 with a double, and a run scored.
- Roden played in three games for the Bluejays in the shortened 2020 season, going 2-5 at the plate.
- Alan tallied his first career base hit in his second pinch hit appearance, knocking a single in a March 10 loss at Minnesota.
- The day after his first career hit, Roden made his first start on March 11 at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, going 1-3 with a solo shot against Minnesota, his first career homerun.
- Roden used his redshirt option during the 2019 season.
- Roden earned four letters in baseball for the Cardinals, claiming Big 8 Conference honors each season.
- Alan claimed All-Big 8 First Team recognition in both his senior and junior campaigns, also earning First Team All-State in 2018.
- Roden hit .520 during Big 8 play during his final season with the Cardinals.
- Huge fan of the TV show The Office
- Career goal is to be a physics professor with a specialty in astrophysics
- “I chose Creighton because of the high-level education as well as the ability to play baseball.”
2013 Creighton Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee Dan Smith
Friday, October 30
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