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Jersey Number 31
Nathan Florence
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Position:
- RHP
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-3 / 210
- B/T:
- R/R
- Hometown:
- Wilbraham, Mass.
- High School:
- Minnechaug Regional
- Prev School:
- Hartford
Rutgers single-season strikeout record (90) set in 2022
2022 Big Ten All-Tournament Team
2022 All-Big Ten Third Team
2020 America East Commissioner's Honor Roll
Hartford single-season games started record (15) set in 2018
2018 America East All-Second Team
2018 America East All-Academic Team
Career Highs
IP: 8.0, 2x, last vs. Penn State (5/27/22)
SO: 12, vs. Central Connecticut State (3/31/18)
Why Rutgers? "Rutgers is a really good academic and athletic graduate-year fit for me. I am familiar with and have respect for the coaching staff as well."
2022 (Graduate)
University of Hartford
Career at Hartford: Pitched in 42 games with 36 starts … logged 197.2 innings … owns 211 strikeouts … named America East All-Second Team in 2018 … started a game in the NCAA Regionals in 2018 … pitched two summers in the Cape Cod League.
2021 (Redshirt Junior)
Appeared in and started nine games on the mound … worked three seven-inning complete games with a shutout … totaled 51 innings with 64 strikeouts … had at least seven strikeouts in seven games … pitched in the summer for Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod League … beat Maine (5/14) with only one run allowed in six innings … fanned nine at Stony Brook (4/3) … tossed seven shutout frames with nine strikeouts in a complete-game win over NJIT (3/27) and earned America East co-Pitcher of the Week (3/29) … surrendered just one run in seven innings to top Binghamton (3/21) in season debut.
2020 (Redshirt Junior)
2019 (Junior)
Missed season due to injury. Received medical redshirt.
2018 (Sophomore)
2017 (Freshman): Appeared in 15 games with nine starts … named to America East Commissioner's Honor Roll … led the team in strikeouts (42), and batting average against (.240) … logged 46.1 innings … tallied six games with four or more strikeouts … struck out six in 4.2 innings at Army (5/6) … beat UMass Lowell (4/29).
Prior to College: Won 13 games during his varsity career at Minnechaug High School … finished with a 1.75 ERA and 165 strikeouts … struck out 16 batters during a no-hitter as a senior … two-time MBCA State All-Star selection … two-time PVIAC All League Team Member … two-time All Western-Mass selection … honored among the MassLive "Super 7" in 2016 … member of the "AP" Prospect Team that won the Diamond Nation Super 17 Tournament in 2015 … a gymnast for 13 years and competed for Daggett Gymnastics … qualified for and competed in the National Junior Olympics in 2012.
Personal: Son of Michelle and Bill Florence … has an older brother, Josh.
2022 Big Ten All-Tournament Team
2022 All-Big Ten Third Team
2020 America East Commissioner's Honor Roll
Hartford single-season games started record (15) set in 2018
2018 America East All-Second Team
2018 America East All-Academic Team
Career Highs
IP: 8.0, 2x, last vs. Penn State (5/27/22)
SO: 12, vs. Central Connecticut State (3/31/18)
Why Rutgers? "Rutgers is a really good academic and athletic graduate-year fit for me. I am familiar with and have respect for the coaching staff as well."
2022 (Graduate)
- Set Rutgers single-season strikeout record (90)
- Big Ten All-Tournament Team
- All-Big Ten Third Team
University of Hartford
Career at Hartford: Pitched in 42 games with 36 starts … logged 197.2 innings … owns 211 strikeouts … named America East All-Second Team in 2018 … started a game in the NCAA Regionals in 2018 … pitched two summers in the Cape Cod League.
2021 (Redshirt Junior)
Appeared in and started nine games on the mound … worked three seven-inning complete games with a shutout … totaled 51 innings with 64 strikeouts … had at least seven strikeouts in seven games … pitched in the summer for Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod League … beat Maine (5/14) with only one run allowed in six innings … fanned nine at Stony Brook (4/3) … tossed seven shutout frames with nine strikeouts in a complete-game win over NJIT (3/27) and earned America East co-Pitcher of the Week (3/29) … surrendered just one run in seven innings to top Binghamton (3/21) in season debut.
2020 (Redshirt Junior)
- America East Commissioner's Honor Roll
2019 (Junior)
Missed season due to injury. Received medical redshirt.
2018 (Sophomore)
- Set Hartford record with 15 starts
- America East All-Second Team
- America East All-Academic Team
2017 (Freshman): Appeared in 15 games with nine starts … named to America East Commissioner's Honor Roll … led the team in strikeouts (42), and batting average against (.240) … logged 46.1 innings … tallied six games with four or more strikeouts … struck out six in 4.2 innings at Army (5/6) … beat UMass Lowell (4/29).
Prior to College: Won 13 games during his varsity career at Minnechaug High School … finished with a 1.75 ERA and 165 strikeouts … struck out 16 batters during a no-hitter as a senior … two-time MBCA State All-Star selection … two-time PVIAC All League Team Member … two-time All Western-Mass selection … honored among the MassLive "Super 7" in 2016 … member of the "AP" Prospect Team that won the Diamond Nation Super 17 Tournament in 2015 … a gymnast for 13 years and competed for Daggett Gymnastics … qualified for and competed in the National Junior Olympics in 2012.
Personal: Son of Michelle and Bill Florence … has an older brother, Josh.
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