Why Rutgers? “Being a baseball player from New Jersey, playing for Rutgers University has been a dream of mine all my life.”
2024 (Senior): Started series finale at Winthrop, going 1-for-3 with an RBI and run scored (2/18).
Lafayette
2023 (Junior): First Team All-Patriot League ... started all 52 games for the Leopards…recorded 50 hits, including five doubles and set Lafayette single-season home run record with 13 home runs…totaled 39 runs and 29 RBIs…finished the season with a .265 batting average.
2022 (Sophomore): Second Team All-Patriot League ... Patriot League Player of the Week (3/8) ... started in all 50 games…totaled 58 hits, including 12 doubles, one triple and five home runs, along with 38 runs, 42 RBIs and 22 stolen bases … ended his junior season with a .330 batting average, .494 slugging percentage and a .438 on base percentage … led the team in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, RBI, total bases and stolen bases.
2021 (Freshman): Second Team All-Patriot League ... started in all 31 games he appeared in his sophomore campaign … recorded 23 runs and 31 hits including nine doubles and two home runs … totaled 28 RBIs and stole 12 bases ... finished the season with a .304 batting average, a .451 slugging percentage and a .443 on base percentage.
2020 (Freshman): Appeared in six games, starting in one in a season cut short by COVID-19 ... recorded his first collegiate hit at Towson on March 6.
Prior to College: Attended Hunterdon Central High School and played two years of varsity baseball, where he was teammates with current Rutgers pitcher Joey DeChiaro ... hit .387 with four home runs and 36 RBIs over two varsity seasons, helping lead the Red Devils to a 2018 Group 4 State Championship ... played travel baseball with the Diamond Jacks from 2014-19.
Personal: Son of Anthony and Alicja Ciuffreda ... has one sister, Caroline ... pursuing a master's in financial analysis.
