MLB Draft, 16th round (Kansas City, 2016)
2016 Third-Team All-Southland Conference OF
2016 No. 162 Collegiate Draft Prospect (D1Baseball.com)
2015 Hamptions Colleigate League No. 5 Prospect (Baseball America)
2014 Southland Conference All-Tournament Team DH
Perfect Game 2013 College Baseball All-American team
2013 Hamptons Collegiate League No. 1 Prospect (Baseball America)
Records:
• Single-season stolen bases (35).
2016 Season:
• Started all 57 games in center field.
• set the school single-season record for stolen bases with 35, a total that was tied for 6th nationally.
• produced an 83.3 success rate in stolen bases and finished his career third at NSU in all-time steals (75).
• led NSU with 43 runs scored.
• went 2-for-5 with an RBI and scored the game-winning run in a 10-9 walk-off win against Abilene Christian on May 20.
• broke Chase Lyles' six-year-old school record for single-season stolen bases with a first-inning steal at Nicholls on May 15.
• went 2-for-5 with a double and scored three runs in a 13-4 win at Nicholls on May 13.
• had three two-hit games in a four-game stretch from April 29-May 7.
• swiped three bases against Mississippi Valley State on April 26, marking his fourth career three-steal game, and scored five runs in NSU's two-game sweep of the Delta Devils.
• connected on his second home run of the season in a 7-5, 10-inning win at Central Arkansas on April 24.
• went 3-for-5 with a double, a run scored and a stolen base in a 6-1 win at New Orleans on April 15.
• doubled, tripled and drove in a career-high five runs in a 7-1 win at McNeese on April 2 and swiped two bases in an 8-7, 10-inning win the next day.
• swiped four bases in the final two games of the series against Stephen F. Austin on March 25-26.
• had three steals, including a swipe of home, in a 2-0 win against Lamar on March 12 and stole five bases in the three-game series.
• hit safely in a season-long six games from Feb. 26-March 6, going 10-for-20 (.500) with nine runs scored, six stolen bases a double, his first home run of the season and two RBIs.Â
• went 2-for-4 with a double in a 1-0, 11-inning opening-night win against Alabama State on Feb. 19.
2015 Season:
• Started all 54 games, beginning the season in right field before shifting to center after Bret Underwood was lost to injury 11 games into the season.
• led the Southland Conference and ranked 44th nationally with 23 stolen bases and needs four steals to move into the top 10 in school history.
• collected 10 multi-hit games, tying a career high with three hits against McNeese State (March 29) and New Orleans (April 11).
• smacked his first career home run at Louisiana Tech (May 12) as part of a career-high 4-RBI performance.
• walked off New Orleans in Game 1 of an April 10 doubleheader with a two-run single, capping a three-run ninth inning.
• posted his second career three-steal game in a March 7 win at Lamar and had three multi-steal games.Â
2014 Season:
• Appeared in 44 games, drawing 34 starts.
• finished his redshirt freshman season on a five-game hitting streak, recording three hits in three of those games.
• swiped a career-high 3 bases against Incarnate Word (May 2), one of four multi-steal games, all of which came after April 25. Was successful on 17 of 21 steal attempts during the season.
• had a pair of two-RBI games -- vs. McNeese State (March 8) and at Sam Houston State (March 28).
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2013 Season: Â
• Redshirted.
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High School:Â
• Senior year was named All-State.
• hit .400+ his sophomore, junior and senior seasons.
• four home runs senior seaosn and two junior season.
• named first-team Centennial League as a junior.
• was 4-of-5 in the Kansas All-State Senior Game.
• coached by Heath Gerstner, Derek Scott, and Dave Martinez.
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Personal:Â
• Born Nov. 27, 1993.
• son of Michael and Kimberly Milleson.
• mother ran track at Kansas State and participated in the 1988 Olympic Trials.
• one sister, Jordan.
• majoring in psychology and hopes to continue playing baseball or to work toward becoming an athletic administrator.
