2025 Baseball Roster
Roster
Max Johnson
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 192
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Mason, Ohio
- High School:
- Mason
- C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll, 2023
2025: Enjoyed his most productive season at the plate while playing in 33 games (27 starts) despite battling through injuries… Hit .314 over his last 13 games (11x35) and had a .414 OBP down the stretch with eight runs scored… Homered for the first time in his collegiate career on 3/16 vs. HCU, a two-run shot in the bottom of the 8th to seal a 6-2 win and a split in the four-game series against the eventual Southland Conference champs… Also homered at Sam Houston (4/1) and at UAB (4/27), and the Owls were 3-0 in games he hit a home run… Had three multi-hit games, the last vs. FAU at the AAC tournament on 5/21… Finished his career hitting .500 in four games at the AAC Championship (6x12) with six RBI.
2024: Battled back from an early-season injury to deliver some key hits for the Owls at the end of the season… Started the last four games at third and hit in three of four, including a pair of two-hit, two RBI games in the AAC Championship… Led the Owls with four RBI at the tournament… Drove in his first run of the year vs. Prairie View but suffered an injury on a collision at first in the top of the ninth and did not return to action until a start vs. Houston on 4/2… Injury came the night before the Owls departed for their series against Hawai’i in Honolulu… Singled in four trips in his return to action vs. Houston… Doubled in a pair of runs as part of a 2x3 effort at ECU on 5/17… Collected his second double against UAB at the AAC Championship and drove in two… 2x3 with another two RBI in the Owls’ 8-7 loss to ECU to end the season.
2023: Started 18 of the first 24 games (13 at short, 5 at third) before suffering an injury on 3/26 that held him out of action until 5/7 … Reached base in18 of 53 plate appearances and scored 11 runs 12 games after his return ... Hit in six of his first eight starts (.310, 9x29) and scored 11 runs over that span, including four vs. Houston on 5/0 ... Made 13 starts at short, nine in left, seven at third and one at second ... Was second on the team with 17 walks when he was injured... 4x12 with three RBI vs. HCU ... Matched his career high with three RBI vs. Louisiana on 2/19 and again vs. Prairie View on 5/17.
Prior to Indiana: Played for head coach Curt Bly at Mason High School, where he was rated the No. 13 prospect and No. 2 shortstop in Ohio by Perfect Game … Invited to the Perfect Game National Showcase and Junior National Showcase … Guided to the Comets to three Greater Miami Conference titles … Tabbed All-Central Region by Perfect Game as a junior and senior … Tabbed Underclass All-American by Perfect Game as a sophomore … Selected first-team all-state as a senior … Garnered first-team all-district, all-city and all-Greater Miami Conference his final prep season … Also lettered twice in basketball … Helped the basketball team to a pair of OHSAA state tournament sectional titles … Father, Gus Johnson, lettered in basketball at Ohio … Grandmother, Sally Johnson, lettered in swimming at Bowling Green … Uncles, Scott Johnson (Miami (Ohio)) and Travis Lutz (Ohio State), lettered in football…Cousin, Jeremy Ebert, lettered in football at Northwestern and was selected in the seventh round of the 2012 NFL Draft… Cousin, David Williams, lettered in baseball at Xavier.
Wiess College
