Biography
Honors
• ABCA First Team All-America (2025)
• MVC Player of the Year (2025)
• ABCA All-Region First Team (2025)
• All-MVC First Team (2024, 2025)
• MVC Player of the Week (March 31, 2025; April 7, 2025)
• MSU A.E. “Ted” Willis Team MVP (2024, 2025)
• MVC All-Defensive Team (2025)
• Dick Howser Trophy Semifinalist (2025)
• Brooks Wallace Award watch list (April 2023)
• Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024)
• MVC Honor Roll (2022-23, 2023-24)
• MVC Scholar-Athlete Spotlight (May 30, 2024)
Senior (2025)/Career Summary
First Team All-American (ABCA) and MVC Joe Carter Player of the Year with one of the top individual seasons in school history...Batted .368 with 18 homers, 22 doubles, 56 RBIs, 65 runs scored, a .702 slugging percentage and .444 OBP...MVC Defensive Team selection with a .976 fielding percentage in 246 chances...Had a 40-game hit streak from March 9-May 23, 2025, a Missouri State record that ranked second in MVC and 12th in NCAA Division I history...Had an extra-base hit in 15 straight games from March 23-April 18, 2025; No college record exists, and the MLB record is 14 games...Homered in five consecutive games from April 6-11...Earned MVC Player of the Week on March 31 and April 7...Went 5-for-6 with five runs and two homers in the Bears’ win at No. 2 Arkansas (March 25)...Totaled 27 multi-hit games as a senior and 66 in career...Had two separate streaks of reaching safely in 40-plus games in career...On MSU’s single-season charts, senior year totals ranked fourth in doubles (22), fifth in extra-base hits (40), ninth in total bases (160) and 19th in home runs (18)...Ended career among the Bears’ all-time leaders in multi-homer games (5th - 5), walks (9th - 109), home runs (11th - 39), assists (12th - 429), total bases (16th - 388), hits (17th - 226), extra-base hits (17th - 83), doubles (18th - 43) and runs (18th - 161)...Started all 168 games of his three MSU seasons, batting .330 and slugging .566 with 39 home runs, 43 doubles, 139 RBIs and 161 runs scored.
2024 (Junior)
First-team all-MVC selection and A.E. “Ted” Willis Team MVP after batting a team-best .332 with 14 home runs and 48 RBI...Slugged .582 with a .432 on-base percentage thanks to 41 walks, which placed seventh in the MVC...Started all 57 games at second base and was the only Bear to appear in every game...In 27 conference games, batted.410 with a .500 on-base percentage, both ranking second in the league behind only the MVC Player of the Year...Reached safely in 55 of 57 games, including the final 38 of the year, the longest at MSU since at least 2017 based on available data...Opened the season on a 16-game hitting streak, tied for the No. 20 such streak in school history...Collected multiple hits in 19 contests, including a four-hit game on May 3 versus Murray State during an 11-game hit streak...Hit two home runs in an April 28 win at Evansville...Smacked 11 doubles and a triple for 26 total extra-base hits...Scored 47 runs and stole 10 bases.
2023 (Sophomore)
Started all 56 games at shortstop and batted in the leadoff spot 53 times...Hit .291 with seven homers, 10 doubles, 35 RBI and 49 runs scored...Ranked ninth in the MVC in hits (69), seventh in runs and sixth in walks (35)...Homered twice at 2023 College World Series participant Oral Roberts (Feb. 22), driving in a career-high four runs in the victory...Hit leadoff homers at Oral Roberts (Feb. 22) and against No. 7 Arkansas (April 25)...Opened the season with five consecutive multi-hit games and collected two or more hits in 20 contests...Reached safely in 49 of 56 games with a long streak of 17 to open the season...Went 4-for-6 with a walk-off single in the 14th inning of the home opener against Central Arkansas (Feb. 24)...Named to the Brooks Wallace Award watch list in April, given to the nation’s top shortstop...Drew four walks and scored four runs on April 9 against Bradley...Led the team with 124 assists.
Background
Earned Freshman All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball at Charleston Southern in 2022, where he hit .384 with 18 RBI and 17 runs scored in 34 games...Slugged .493 with a .489 on-base percentage while posting a stellar .971 fielding percentage...Second player in CSU history to earn Freshman All-America status and one of four shortstops nationally recognized to the team in 2022...Big South All-Tournament selection as a rookie...Played for prep powerhouse Jesuit High in Tampa, Fla., helping the Tigers to a state championship as a sophomore, a No. 1 national ranking his junior season and top-five ranking his senior year.
Personal
Nicolas Rodriguez is the son of Douglas and Amy Rodriguez...Born Oct. 29, 2002, in Tampa, Fla....Majoring in management and leadership.
