Daunte STUART

Infielder

5-11 • 180 • Junior • R/R

The Woodlands, Texas • The Woodlands HS

2023 Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award Watch List

2023 No. 8 Southland Conference MLB Draft Prospect (D1Baseball.com)

2023 Second-Team Preseason All-Southland Conference 2B

2022 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll

2022 Academic All-Southland Conference Second Team

2022 Third-Team All-Southland Conference 2B

2022 No. 3 Southland Conference MLB Draft Prospect (Baseball America)

2022 No. 5 Southland Conference MLB Draft Prospect (D1Baseball.com)

2022 Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award Watch List

2022 First-Team Preseason All-Southland Conference

2021 Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American

2021 Second-Team All-Southland Conference 2B

2020-21 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll

2020 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll

Summer 2022:

• Played for the West Virginia Black Bears of the MLB Draft League, helping the team win the league’s first half championship.

2022 Season:

• Tied a career high by scoring four runs in a May 6 win at McNeese, going 2-for-4 with a pair of hit by pitches and a stolen base.

• drilled a first-inning home run against Southeastern on April 29, part of back-to-back homers with Gray Rowlett.

• put the Demons on the board with his third home run of the season, a two-run shot in the seventh inning, at Nicholls on April 16.

• went 3-for-4 with a home run and a career-high five RBIs in a Game 2 win against South Dakota State on March 19.

5-11

190

• R-Sophomore • L/R Spring, Texas • Oak Ridge HS (Paris JC)

2022 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll

2022 Season:

• Did not see game action, redshirted.

Prior to NSU:

• Played two seasons at Paris Junior College.

• helped lead the Dragons to their first regional championship in more than two decades.

• graduated with a 3.88 grade point average.

High School:

• Two-year letterman for coaches Mike Pirtle and JJ Pierce’s War Eagles.

• team offensive MVP as a senior, hitting .357 with five home runs to earn honorable mention all-district honors.

• Oak Ridge went 23-11 and won the district title in his senior season.

• graduated with a 3.4 grade point average.

Personal:

• Born March 8, 2000.

• son of Debbie and Jim Starnes.

• has two brothers, Johnathon and Justin, and one sister, Kelly.

• majoring in business administration and holds a 3.7 GPA.

• wants to work as a financial planner.

• life’s ambition is to work for his dad’s financial planning business or become a coach.

• posted a career-high five hits -- NSU’s first five-hit game in nearly three years -- and drove in two in a 21-7 win against Lamar on March 15.

• hit safely in a season-long seven games from March 9-18.

• went 4-for-9 with a double, a home run and four RBIs in a March 12 doubleheader sweep of Alcorn.

• hit safely in the first five games of the season, going 8-for-21 (.381) with four doubles in that span.

2021 Season:

• Appeared in and started the first 52 games of the season before missing the finale with an injury.

• paced NSU’s qualifying hitters in the Triple Crown categories (.270 BA, 7 HR, 30 RBIs) and in total bases (84) and slugging percentage (.454).

• led the team in multi-hit games (12) and tied for the lead in multi-RBI games (8).

• went 2-for-3 and scored twice in a May 15 win against Stephen F. Austin.

• went 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI and two walks in a Game 1 win against McNeese on May 8.

• delivered a go-ahead, three-run double in the eighth inning of a May 7 Game 2 win against McNeese.

• went 2-for-4 with his first career road home run in Game 2 of a May 1 doubleheader at Central Arkansas.

• drilled a pair of home runs — his first career multi-homer game — drove in three runs and scored four times in a Game 2 win against Nicholls on April 24.

• drew five walks -- including four in an April 11 doubleheader -- in a four-game series against Lamar.

• collected his third three-walk game of the season and went 2-for-2 in a March 30 win against LSUA.

• went 1-for-2 with three walks in a March 27 loss to South Alabama.

• hit safely in a career-long 10 straight games from Feb. 22-March 12.

• homered in three straight games from Feb. 27-March 6 and four times in five games from Feb. 27-March 12.

• rapped out three singles and drove in a run in a 6-5 win against Incarnate Word on March 14.

• started the scoring with a solo home run in a 5-4 win against Incarnate Word on March 12, reaching base in all four of his plate appearances.

• went 4-for-8 with two home runs, seven RBIs and seven walks -- three intentional --