Jack Housinger

Position:
Infielder
Height:
5-9
Weight:
155
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Hawthorn Woods, Ill.
High School:
Stevenson
B/T:
L/R

OPENDORSE

HONORS AND AWARDS
2022 All-BIG EAST Second Team
2022 BIG EAST All-Tournament Team
2022 Preseason All-BIG EAST
2021 All-BIG EAST First Team
2021 Preseason All-BIG EAST Team
2020 Preseason All-BIG EAST Team
2019 All-BIG EAST Second Team

2022: Made the start at shortstop in all 60 games, tying for 13th most appearances in a single season in program records...batted .311 for the season, with 30 of his 71 hits going for extra bases for a .588 slugging percentage...Among his 30 extra base hits were 16 home runs, second most in program history, trailing only Luke Franzoni's total of 29 from 2022, with the pair leading Xavier to a new single-season school record 100 homers...Moved into the top five for career doubles, with 45 for his time as a Musketeer after hitting 13 in 2022...Came around to score 68 runs, a new Xavier single season record, bringing his career runs scored total to 141, 10th most in program history...Drove in 58 RBI, sixth most in a single season in program history...had 47 walks on the season, sixth most in a single season in program history, bringing his career total to 132, third most career walks for a Musketeer...Also had 12 stolen bases...In the field, posted a .951 fielding percentage, recording 143 assists and helping Xavier to a league-leading 37 double plays.

2021: Appeared in 50 games, starting in 49... Batted .297 (third on team), including 52 hits (team-high), 17 doubles (team-high), and five home runs... Scored 37 runs (team-high) and 28 RBIs (third on team)... team-high .437 OBP and third-best .480 SLG%... Drew team-best 37 walks and had eight HBPs... HAd 15 multi-hit games and three three-hit games... Had seven multi-RBI games, including four with three RBIs... Had seven games scoring multiple runs, three scoring at least four runs, and one game against Dayton in which he scored five... Stole 13 bases (second on team)... Finished with .935 FLD% including a team-high 89 assists and adding 55 putouts.

2020: Started in all 15 games before season was cut short due to COVID-19... Batted .232 with 13 hits and and nine runs...Had a team-best 12 walks and .377 on-base percentage in abbreviated season against the second-toughest schedule in the country...Had three multi-hit games, at Memphis, at Ole Miss and at Long Beach State...Collected two RBI in win at Charleston...Put together a team-best eight game hitting streak, and finished with an active 10 game streak of reaching base safely, also a team-best...Was named a Top 50 Sophomore Hitters by D1Baseball following the season...Posted a fielding average of .944 for the season.

2019: Made 55 appearances (50 starts) and hit .275 with 21 RBIs... .Batted .279 in conference play, collecting 12 hits, including five doubles, and six RBI in 14 appearances against BIG EAST opponents...drew a team-high 36 walks and stole 5 bases...earned the second-best OBP for Xavier with .407...Had 14 bases on balls in conference play, with an on-base percentage of .459, both second highest on the team for BIG EAST action had 13 extra base hits for a SLG% of .357... had 11 multi-hit games including a 4-for-4 day against Evansville (3/22) that included three runs and an RBI....Finished with a fielding percentage of .974 for his rookie season, with only four errors and just one of those coming during conference play.

Before Xavier: A strong fielder, Housinger hit .375 with a .536 on-base percentage as Stevenson's starting shortstop last season...Helped Stevenson to a conference title in 2016, comes from a program with eight regional titles since 2003...Multi-year captain for both baseball and basketball teams.