Biography
Honors
• Preseason All-MVC (2020)
• Second-Team All-MVC (2019)
• MSU A.E. “Ted” Willis Team MVP Award (2019)
• MVC Scholar-Athlete Team (2018, 2019, 2020)
• MVC Player of the Week (April 17, 2017)
• Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
• MVC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award (2018, 2020)
• MVC Honor Roll (2017, 2018, 2020, 2021)
• CoSIDA Academic Al-District (2021)
2021 (Senior/Career Summary)
Started all 38 games in which he appeared during his fifth season, batting .261 with three home runs and 23 RBI, good for second on the club...Opened the season on an 11-game hit streak...Hauled in a SportsCenter Top 10 catch on March 2 against No. 14 Oklahoma State...Finished career ranked fourth in school history with 225 games played, collecting 204 hits with 57 of those going for extra bases...Hit nine homers and drove in 95 runs as a Bear while scoring 113 times.
2020 (Senior)
Started 16 of MSU’s 17 games in center field and hit leadoff on 15 occasions ... Led the Bears in at bats (66), runs scored (12), doubles (5) and walks (11) ... Had three-hit games at Central Arkansas (Feb. 15) and Oklahoma State (March 3), adding three of his five RBIs on the season in the OSU game ... Batted .212 with a .333 on-base percentage ... Successful on each of his three stolen base attempts ... Earned MVC Scholar-Athlete honors for the third consecutive season ... Perfect in 48 chances in the field.
2019 (Junior)
Duffy started 54 games in the Bears’ outfield, logging a team-best .305 batting mark to go along with team-leading season figures for hits (60), doubles (13) and on-base percentage (.392) ... Selected as MSU’s A.E. “Ted” Willis MVP ... Tabbed for second-team All-MVC and Valley Scholar-Athlete Team honors ... Batted .371 (49-for-132) over the Bears’ final 33 games (March 29-May 23) and .341 in MSU’s 21 Valley games ... Drove in a run in 10 of the 11 plate appearances in which he batted with a runner on third and less than one out ... Recorded a team-best 17 multi-hit games, nine of which came during MVC play ... Turned in two separate double-digit hit streaks, including a season-ending, career-best 12-game streak (May 4-23), after recording a hit in 11-straight contests from March 29-April 13; hit .425 (17-for-40) during the 11-game streak ... Registered his first two-hit game of the season Feb. 27 vs. Central Arkansas, going 2-for-5 with two runs scored and a steal to help secure a two-game series sweep ... Drove in two key runs as part of the largest comeback victory in program history March 15 at Oklahoma ... Kicked off his 11-game hit streak with a 2-for-5 effort against Indiana State (March 29) in the Bears’ MVC-opening victory over the Sycamores ... Produced five multi-hit games over the final six contests of his streak (April 5-13); posted back-to-back two-hit games to help MSU lock up a conference series win at Southern Illinois ... Notched a career-best four hits against New Orleans (April 20), then logged consecutive three-hit games against Wichita State (May 7) and Evansville (May 10) ... Went 5-for-12 with two home runs and six runs scored during the Bears’ three-game sweep of Valparaiso (May 16-18) to end the regular season; added a pair of doubles and two RBIs against the Crusaders in the opening round of the MVC Tournament (May 21) ... Batted .385 (5-for-13) at the league meet ... Named to the Valley’s Academic Honor Roll for the third consecutive season.
2018 (Sophomore)
Saw action in all 57 contests for the Bears, making 54 starts in the outfield in helping MSU to its second straight Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title ... Hit .286 overall and .381 with runners in scoring position during league play ... Logged 12 multi-hit games and seven multi-RBI performances ... Led the Bears with five outfield assists and committed just one error in 127 defensive chances for a .992 fielding percentage ... Hit a solo shot in the Bears’ season opener against Texas Southern (Feb. 16) for his first collegiate home run as part of a 2-for-4 day ... Went 6-for-10 with four RBIs over a three-game stretch (March 14-17), logging three hits at Oklahoma State (March 17) ... Hit in eight straight MVC contests, April 21-May 6 ... Drove in multiple runs in all three contests of the Bears’ series sweep of Valparaiso (May 4-6); plated a pair of runs in the first two games, then delivered a critical three-run homer in the finale as part of a decisive four-run, eighth-inning rally in the 6-2 victory ... Went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored in the Bears’ MVC regular-season title clinching victory over DBU (May 19), kicking off a seven-game hit streak ... Batted .333 (9-for-27) with a homer and six RBIs over the course of the hit streak ... Hammered a key three-run, first-inning homer in the Bears’ NCAA Regional victory over Saint Louis to help offset a four-run rally by the Billikens in the top half of the inning ... Earned a spot on the Valley’s Scholar-Athlete Team, and was the lone Bear to receive the MVC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award at the conclusion of the season.
2017 (Freshman)
Played in 58 games, including 45 total starts for the Bears as a freshman, hitting .222 with 21 runs scored, 17 RBIs and seven steals for the year ... Club went 28-11 over his 39 starts in right field ... Recorded the top two-out batting average on the team (.364), including 10 two-out RBIs ... Produced his first hit as a Bear Feb. 21 at Oral Roberts, then went 2-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored in his next outing at Belmont (Feb. 24) ... Kicked off his first four-game hit streak against Arkansas (April 11), before logging three-straight multi-hit outings at New Mexico (April 13-15); went 3-for-4 with a pair of runs batted-in during the series opener in Albuquerque, then added three more hits—including his lone triple of the season—and two additional RBIs the following game, before wrapping up his weekend with a 2-for-5 effort in an 8-0 victory in the finale ... Earned MVC Player of the Week honors on April 17 after hitting .600 with five RBIs for the week ... Hit .467 (7-for-15) and drove in three runs over his second four-game hit streak, April 29-May 6 ... Added singles in each of the Bears’ first two games vs. Indiana State (May 12-13) to help clinch the Valley regular-season title for MSU ... Singled and drove in a run in the Bears’ NCAA Regional opening win over Oklahoma State (June 2) ... Went 2-for-4 with a walk, a steal and an RBI against host Arkansas (June 4) ... Named to the MVC Honor Roll at the conclusion of the season.
Background
Rated as Missouri’s sixth-best overall prep prospect and the top outfielder in the class of 2016, according to PBR ... Led Staley High School to conference and district titles as a senior, when he hit .528 with six home runs, 32 RBIs and 31 steals to earn Louisville Slugger First-Team All-America recognition and his second consecutive first-team all-state nod ... Named to the Kansas City Star’s All-Metro squad for the second-straight year, as well as a Rawlings/ABCA Third-Team All-American and Gold Glove Award winner ... Earned a 2016 Preseason Rawlings Perfect Game High Honorable Mention All-America selection and a Second-Team All-Central Region pick ... Named a first-team Missouri Class 5 All-State selection as a junior and a Perfect Game Underclass Honorable Mention All-America pick ... Batted .460 with 46 hits, 29 runs scored and 26 RBIs, while swiping 16 bases for a Staley club that finished as the state’s Class 5 runner-up with a 27-5 record in 2015 ... Participated in the 2015 WWBA World Championship.
Personal
Jackson Duffy is the son of Dan and Barb Duffy ... Born Aug. 26, 1997, in Kansas City, Mo. ... Pursuing his MBA after graduating with an advertising and promotion degree.
