2023 Southland Conference Tournament All-Tournament Team
2023 Preseason First-Team All-Southland Conference Catcher
2022 First-Team All-Southland Conference Catcher
2024 Season:
• Appeared in 54 games, starting 50, in his final collegiate season.
• finished his NSU career tied for eighth in career home runs (24) and in 10th place in career RBIs (116).
• homered in his final three games and drove in 15 runs in his final five NSU contests.
• connected on his fourth career grand slam in his final home game, May 18 against Stephen F. Austin, and finished with six RBIs.
• had his third career game against UNO with a double and a home run, driving in three runs in a May 13 win against the Privateers.
• drove in the Demons' lone run with a ninth-inning double at Lamar on May 5.
• connected on his third career grand slam and drove in six runs -- giving him 100 for his NSU career -- in an April 26 win against HCU.
• blasted a two-run home run and drove in three runs in a three-hit game against Grambling on April 23.
• went 2-for-5 with a double in a March 29 win at McNeese.
• collected three hits and an RBI in a March 23 loss to Southeastern.
• drilled a game-tying, three-run home run at Louisiana Tech on March 15.
• homered against Stony Brook on Feb. 24.
• highlighted a 4-for-5, four-RBI performance against Northern Illinois with his first home run of the season.
• drove in multiple runs in the first five games of the season.
• hit safely in the first seven games of the season, batting .517 with two doubles, two home runs and 14 RBIs in that span.
• had two RBIs in all three games of a season-opening series against Southern Illinois from Feb. 16-18.
• went 8-for-15 against the Salukis.
2023 Season:
• Appeared in 40 games, starting 35, in his second season at NSU.
• earned all-tournament honors at the SLC Tournament, hitting .417 (5-for-12) with a double, a home run and six RBIs in four games.
• had a two-run single in a May 26 SLC Tournament elimination-game win against McNeese.
• snapped a 1-all tie with a solo home run in a May 24 SLC Tournament win against UIW, giving NSU its first tournament win since 2018.
• drove in a season-high five runs, going 3-for-5 with a double, in a May 7 series-finale win at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
• continued his trend of hitting home runs in Southland Conference openers, this one a second-inning solo shot at Houston Christian on April 14, part of a 4-for-5 day with two doubles.
• homered in his second straight Southland Conference series opener, connecting on a two-run shot in an April 7 win against Lamar.
• ripped a pinch-hit, walk-off single to defeat Louisiana Tech in 13 innings on April 4.
• hit safely in four straight games from March 25-April 4, going 5-for-9 (.556) with a home run and five RBIs.
• went 2-for-3 with a three-run, first-inning home run and later a double in a March 31 win at New Orleans.
• had a double and an RBI in a March 21 win against LSU-Alexandria and a March 8 win at ULM.
2022 Season:
• Appeared in 47 games, starting 46, in his first season at NSU.
• connected on a three-run, first-inning home run in a May 8 loss at McNeese.
• set a career high with three hits, including a home run, and three RBIs in a May 6 win at McNeese.
• went 2-for-4 with his seventh home run of the season in an April 19 win against LSU-Alexandria.
• homered in consecutive games -- both int the fourth inning -- April 8-9 at Incarnate Word.
• had his second bases-loaded, three-run double of the year in an April 1 win against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
• drew four walks, tying the school single-game record, and scored three runs in a March 27 series-finale win at New Orleans.
• drove in three runs with a bases-loaded double in a March 25 loss at New Orleans.
• drilled a three-run home run to help clinch the Demons' March 18 win against South Dakota State.
• homered twice and drove in seven runs -- the most by a Demon since 2019 -- in a March 1 loss to UL Lafayette.
• went 2-for-4 with an RBI in a Feb. 25 win against Oklahoma at Globe Life Field.
• homered in his first Northwestern State at-bat, a solo shot in a Feb. 19 win against Stephen F. Austin.
• Played for the Arroyo Seco Saints of the California Collegiate League.
• Played one season at Weatherford College.
• batted .306 with 11 doubles, six home runs and 25 RBIs in 2021.
• posted a 3.2 grade point average.
• Two-sport standout for the Bulldogs.
• earned team MVP honors as a senior for coach Taylor Shifflet’s baseball team.
• earned honorable mention all-state, first-team all-county, first-team all-district and first-team all-decade honors as a sophomore on coach Sterling Doty’s football team.
• Born June 13, 2000.
• son of Tammy and Erik Willis.
• has two sisters, Brittyn and Ariel, and one brother, Haden.
• majoring in psychology.
• plans to become a coach.
• life’s ambition is to “achieve what I am able and appreciate my relationships with people along the way.”.
