Honors:
• MVC Championship All-Tournament Team (2016)
• MSU Danny Cook Rookie of the Year Award (2014)
• Coors MSU Player of the Week (March 24, 2014)
• MVC Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (2014)
2016: Meyer emerged as one of the Bears' top offensive threats as a junior, hitting a career-best .315 as MSU's primary second baseman ... Logged 17 multi-hit games, as well as the Missouri Valley Conference's longest hitting streak of the season with his 20-game stretch, March 5-April 5, hitting .355 with 14 RBIs over the same span ... Led the Bears with a career-high 17 doubles, which ranked seventh overall in the Valley ... Kicked the season off with a bang, belting a two-run homer on the third pitch of the Bears' opener at Central Arkansas as part of a 3-for-4 day that saw him drive in three runs and score four times ... Turned in another three-hit effort at Austin Peay (Feb. 28) ... Went 2-for-4 with a double vs. Oklahoma State (March 8) to kick off a stretch that saw him log six multi-hit games--including four in a row--in eight outings and bat .469 (15-for-32) ... Went 5-for-6 with five RBIs and recorded the first stolen base of his career in a two-game sweep of Western Illinois (March 15-16) ... Drove in a career-best four runs in the Bears' 15-3 win over WIU in the series finale ... Doubled twice in a 5-4 victory over Iowa (March 19) ... Scored three times and drove home a run as part of a 2-for-2 night in a 16-1 pasting of Missouri (April 12) ... Powered MSU's three-game sweep of Illinois State by going 5-for-11 with a pair of steals to kick off his late-season hot streak ... Earned MVC Championship All-Tournament Team honors after notching at least two hits in five of the Bears' six games; batted .650 (13-for-20) to help MSU to a runner-up finish ... Went 2-for-4 with two runs scored in MSU's come-from-behind win in an elimination game with Indiana State, then gashed Bradley for three hits in a 13-3 victory ... Followed that effort with a 2-for-3 game against Bradley the following day, before registering a career-best four hits in the title game against Dallas Baptist ... Named a Prospect League All-Star after standout summer with the DuPage Drones ... Collected the Prospect League's Mike Schmidt Player of the Year honor and the Roland Hemond Pro Prospect of the Year award after setting a new league record for batting average (.423); led the league in hits (82), total bases (116), on-base percentage (.487) and slugging (.598), while his 45 RBIs tied for second in the circuit.
2015: Posted a .298 batting mark in 39 games as a sophomore ... Made 21 starts, primarily as the Bears’ designated hitter ... Batted .406 (13-for-32) with seven of his nine RBIs at Hammons Field; also thrived during league play, hitting .314 (11-for-35) in 14 games ... Turned in a season-best eight-game hit streak, Feb. 28-March 27, batting .524 (11-for-21) with six RBIs; reached base safely in 11 consecutive contests during the same stretch ... Logged season-high three-hit efforts March 24 vs. Kansas and April 3 vs. Dallas Baptist ... Went 5-for-6 with two RBIs and two runs scored over a two-game swing vs. KU and Jacksonville (March 27) ... Torched DBU with a 7-for-14 performance during the Bears’ series win over the Patriots (April 2-4), reaching base safely in nine of his 16 plate appearances on the weekend ... Notched his second multi-hit outing of the season vs. Kansas (April 15), going 2-for-3 with a run scored in the 3-0 MSU win ... Recorded a hit and drove in a run vs. Wichita State (May 2) to help the Bears sweep the Shockers in a three-game home set ... Drove in a run in MSU’s 14-1 NCAA Regional victory over Canisius (May 30).
2014: Appeared in 48 contests as a freshman, making 10 starts at second base and 22 more in the Bears' outfield ... Batted .348 in Valley play, which was good for fifth overall in the conference ... Named MSU's Danny Cook Rookie of the Year...Went 5-for-8 (.625) as a pinch hitter to lead the club ... Batted .400 (4-for-10) in the Bears' season-opening series win over UCA (Feb. 14-16), including a 3-for-5 day in a 6-4 win in the middle game of the series ... Came off the bench to deliver an RBI double in a 6-5 loss at UT Arlington (March 8) ... Went 5-for-11 (.455) in MSU's three-game Valley series at Wichita State (March 21-23), including a pair of two-hit games ... Doubled and scored the game-winning run in the ninth inning of the Bears' 4-3 win in the final game of the WSU series ... Recorded a hit in seven of eight games, March 21-April 1, batting .360 (9-for-25) over the same stretch ... Matched a season-best with a four-game hit streak April 23-May 3, logging hits in six of seven at-bats, capped by a 3-for-4 effort at Dallas Baptist ... Sparked an eighth-inning rally against the MVC regular-season champ Evansville (May 17) with his second hit off the MSU bench--a leadoff double--that started a four-run rally that culminated in a 9-8 Bears' win ... Scored a season-high two runs in MSU's 9-1 win over host Indiana State in an elimination game at the MVC Championship (May 21) ... Turned in RBI singles in each of the Bears' final two games at the conference tourney against Dallas Baptist (May 23).
Background: A prep standout from Belleville (Ill.) West High School, Meyer hit .465 as a senior in leading the Maroons to a 21-13 overall record and a Southwestern Conference championship this past spring ... Earned an all-state nod from the Illinois coaches after clubbing 10 doubles, driving in 16 runs and stealing 10 bases as a senior ... Also started at shortstop for the Illinois team in the PNC Bank Showcase and picked up his second-straight all-metro squad selection ... Picked up first-team all-conference and all-area honors after batting .324 with 10 doubles and 19 runs batted-in as a junior ... Also lettered as a sophomore, hitting .375 in 11 varsity contests.
Personal: Aaron Matthew Meyer is the son of Lee and Cindy Meyer ... Born Feb. 14, 1995 in St. Louis, Mo. ... Father played baseball at Southern Illinois from 1984-88, and grandfather, Paul Meyer, played basketball at SEMO ... Majoring in sport administration at MSU.
