2025 Baseball Roster
Roster
Gunnett Carlson
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 208
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Tampa, Florida
- High School:
- Berkely Prep
2025: Saw action in 14 of the first 15 games, including 12 starts at first, before suffering a season-ending injury… Drove in the Owls’ first run of the year with a single vs. Villanova at the Puerto Rico Baseball Challenge in Ponce, Puerto Rico and drove in a run in four of his first seven starts… Hit in five of his first seven games with a double and a home run… Slammed a 420-foot home run with one out in the 10th to pull Rice even with USC on 2/21. Walked and scored a run in his final game (3/10 vs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi).
Prior to Rice
Transferred to Rice from the College of Central Florida where he played first base and was a teammate of fellow Rice newcomer Austin Eppley... Second-team All-Citrus Conference pick after hitting .337 and had a 1.045 OPS with 12 homers, nine doubles and 46 RBI and a team-leading 37 walks to post a .455 on base percentage... Transferred to CCF from Florida State where he was teammates with current Owls Treyton Rank and Davion Hickson in 2023... Played in 12 games with the Seminoles and made one start (vs. James Madison on 2/18) in which he collected his first career hit... Hit .222 (2x9) with an RBI and three walks at FSU... Ranked as the No. 11 catcher in Florida by Perfect Game after his senior year at Berkeley Prep in Tampa in 2022... Slashed .378/.504/.555 senior year with 12 doubles, 25 RBI, and 13 runs…named an All-813Preps 2A-5A first-team selection his senior year…Perfect Game All-Region second team…FACA West All-Star selection…No. 9 catcher in Florida per Prep Baseball Report…helped lead the Bucs to region and district championships and a state runner-up finish in 2022... Active in FCA.

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