2015: Named to the D3baseball.com All-Central Region Second Team ... Earned All-Central Region Third-Team honors from ABCA/Rawlings ... Received First-Team All-UAA honors for the third year in a row ... Selected to the UAA Championship All-Tournament Team ... Finished as WashU's all-time career leader in RBIs (162) and games played (174) ... Also ranked second in school history in career hits (237), fourth in doubles (45) and tied for 10th in runs scored (124) ... Set a WashU single-season record with 405 putouts, making just one error in 426 chances ... Reached base safely in the first 49 games of the season, and finished with a streak of 54 consecutive games reaching base dating to April 30, 2014, which is the third-longest streak in NCAA Division III history ... One of three players to start all 50 games in 2015 ... Selected as the UAA Hitter of the Week May 11 ... Earned Capital One Academic All-America Third-Team honors ... Named to the Capital One Academic All-District Team ... Academic all-UAA ... UAA Presidents Council Scholar-Athlete.
2014: Earned Second-Team All-Region honors from ABCA/Rawlings ... Selected to the D3baseball.com All-Central Region Third Team for the second straight year ... Named to the all-UAA First Team for the second year in a row ... One of three players to start all 44 games, making 43 starts at first base and one at designated hitter ... Led the UAA with 13 hit-by-pitches ... First on the team and fourth in the UAA with a .387 batting average (65-for-168) ... Also ranked fifth in the conference for slugging percentage (.494) ... Led the Bears with 65 hits, 40 RBIs and 83 total bases, and tied for second on the team with 34 runs scored ... Tallied 13 extra-base hits (nine doubles, three triples, one homer) ... Recorded hits in 36 of 44 games, including a team-best 21 multiple-hit games and nine multiple-RBI games ... Finished the season with a five-game hitting streak ... Defensively, led the UAA in chances (355) and putouts (330), while finishing second among Washington U.'s starters with a .989 fielding percentage ... Academic all-UAA ... UAA Presidents Council Scholar-Athlete.
2013: Selected to the D3Baseball.com All-Central Region Third Team ... First-team all-UAA ... Named the UAA Tournament Most Valuable Player ... Started all 38 games played at first base ... Reached base safely in 34 of 38 games, including recording hits in 32 games ... Ranked in the top-five in the UAA in three offensive categories - second with 39 RBIs, fourth with a .372 batting average, and fifth with a .490 slugging percentage ... Also tallied a team-best 11 doubles ... Ended the season with a team-best 18-game hitting streak ... Recorded 17 multiple-hit games and 10 multiple-RBI games ... Went 11-for-21 with four doubles, a homerun, and 12 RBIs in six games against Chicago at the end of the season ... Hit the first homerun of his career against Fontbonne (4/11) ... Finished second in the conference with 294 putouts and 315 chances, as well as 32 double plays fielded ... Selected as the UAA Hitter of the Week April 29 and May 13 ... Academic all-UAA ... UAA Presidents Council Scholar-Athlete.
2012: Started all 42 games of his rookie campaign, making 41 starts at first base and one at designated hitter ... Reached base in 36 games, recording hits in 28 contests ... Ranked third on the team with 46 hits and tied for third with eight doubles ... Finished second on the team with 31 RBIs ... Tallied 12 multiple-hit games and a team-best nine multiple-RBI games ... Went 4-for-4 with a double and a triple, an RBI and three runs scored in a win over Buena Vista University (3/2) ... Went 2-for-5 with two doubles, two RBIs and two runs scored in a win over Grinnell College (4/29) ... Assisted on 38 of the 42 double plays turned by the Washington U. defense ... Named the UAA Athlete of the Week on March 5.
HIGH SCHOOL: Team captain and three-year letter winner as a first baseman at Pine Crest Preparatory School ... As a senior, batted .472 with 42 hits, 46 RBIs and eight homeruns ... Received first-team all-county honors from the Sun-Sentinal, Miami Herald, and BrowardHighSchoolBaseball.com ... Named a Miami Herald scholar-athlete ... Played in the Broward High School Baseball all-star game ... Member of the Beta Club ... Graduated cum laude ... AP scholar.
PERSONAL: Majoring in finance and marketing ... Son of James Kessinger and Rosalind Ellis.
