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Jersey Number 23
Taeg Gollert
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 215
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Toronto, Ontario
- Prev School:
- Humberside Collegiate Institute
Honors
• Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week (April 10, 2023)
• CSC Academic All-District (2024, 2025, 2026)
• MVC Scholar-Athlete Second Team (2025)
• Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026)
• MVC Honor Roll (2022-23, 2023-24)
• CUSA Honor Roll (2025)
• CUSA Hitter of the Week (May 11, 2026)
Senior/Career Summary
Finished career with seven school records, including career doubles (72), career extra-base hits (117), career grand slams (4) and single-game grand slams (2), while sharing single-game marks for doubles (3 - twice), sacrifice flies (2) and hit by pitch (3)...Concluded career ranked second in program history in HBP (38), third in RBIs (190), third in sac flies (15), fifth in total bases (450), sixth in at bats (844), ninth in home runs (42), 11th in hits (246) and 13th in games played (213)...Only player in program history with four seasons with 40-plus RBIs...Ranked second in CUSA as a senior with 16 home runs and 64 RBIs...Led all league players with 43 RBIs in 30 CUSA games...Became Mo State’s first ever three-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District selection in 2026...Went 4-for-4 with three doubles against Western Kentucky (April 17) to break the school career doubles record...CUSA Hitter of the Week on May 11, 2026, following consecutive five-RBI games against New Mexico State (May 8-9)...Concluded career with 72 multi-hit games and 51 multi-RBI efforts.
2025 (Junior)
Started all 47 games he played, splitting time between first base (29), left field (11) and designated hitter (7)...Batted .319 with five homers, 22 doubles and 44 RBIs...Doubles total ranked fourth on MSU’s single-season list and raised his career total to 59, good for third in school history...Slugged .541 with a .950 OPS...Became the 14th player in school history with three seasons with at least 40 RBIs...Had a 16-game hitting streak from March 8-April 18...Had 18 multi-hit games and 14 with multiple RBIs...Season highs of three hits came at Sam Houston (Feb. 16) and Wichita State (March 9)...Drove in three runs versus SIUE (March 16), Bradley (March 21), Missouri (April 22) and Illinois State (May 22)...Had multiple doubles in five separate games...Hit .351 in conference games...Tied a school record when he was hit by three pitches against Belmont (May 23), reaching safely five times in the game...Ended the season ranked ninth in MSU history with 27 HBP, 10th with 11 sacrifice flies and 14th with 87 extra-base hits.
2024 (Sophomore)
Started all but one game for the Bears and batted .318 with team highs of 18 doubles and 74 hits, both of which ranked in the top 10 in the MVC...Swatted 10 home runs while driving in 41...Slugged .524 with a .394 on-base percentage...Led the Bears with 24 multi-hit games...In 27 Valley games, hit .361 with a .622 slugging percentage...Had a pair of 10-game hit streaks and drove in multiple runs 11 times...Went 4-for-5 with three RBIs against Southern Illinois (May 16)...Drove in four runs on May 3 versus Murray State...Had three-hit games against ULM (Feb. 16), Arkansas State (March 1), UIC (April 12) and Evansville (April 28)...Doubled twice in a game on four occasions...Scored 47 runs, tying for fourth on the team.
2023 (Freshman)
Had a breakout freshman season by hitting .284 with 11 home runs and 41 RBIs...Started 55 games, the majority (46) in left field...Ranked second in the MVC with 19 doubles, good for fifth nationally among freshmen...Became the first player in school history to hit two grand slams in a game on April 9 versus Bradley, one in the first inning and another to end the game in the bottom of the ninth...Also had two homers against Belmont (April 20)...Tallied 30 extra-base hits on the year, trailing only Jason Hart (36 in 1996), Ryan Howard (33 in 1999) and Zack Stewart (32 in 2023) among true freshmen in Missouri State history...Hit a walk-off home run in the 10th inning against Valparaiso (April 30), his second such homer of the season...Doubled three times in his second career game (Feb. 18 at Cal Poly) to tie a school single-game record...Two sacrifice flies on March 14 against SEMO also tied a school record...Made one appearance on the mound, tossing two-thirds of an inning without allowing a run and becoming the first Bear to pitch and record a hit in the same game since 2016 on March 26 versus Evansville...Tallied 16 multi-hit games, including six with three or more...Had five games with three or more RBIs...Ranked third on the team in both on-base (.382) and slugging (.539) percentage.
Background
Two-way player and one of the top-rated prospects in Ontario when he signed with Missouri State...High school career was limited due to COVID restrictions in his native Canada...Played for the Mississauga HPP Tigers travel program, competing against college programs in the United States among other games and piling up 91 hits in 45 games for a .492 average...Played for the Clinton Lumberkings of the summer collegiate circuit’s Prospect League in 2022, batting .242 with 16 RBIs in 45 games while also posting a 3.09 ERA with 17 strikeouts in 11.2 innings on the mound.
Personal
Taeg Gollert is the son of Jeff and Deborah Gollert...Born April 4, 2003, in Toronto, Ontario...Brother, Harley, pitched collegiately at Austin Peay and Oral Roberts...Majoring in communication studies
• Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week (April 10, 2023)
• CSC Academic All-District (2024, 2025, 2026)
• MVC Scholar-Athlete Second Team (2025)
• Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026)
• MVC Honor Roll (2022-23, 2023-24)
• CUSA Honor Roll (2025)
• CUSA Hitter of the Week (May 11, 2026)
Senior/Career Summary
Finished career with seven school records, including career doubles (72), career extra-base hits (117), career grand slams (4) and single-game grand slams (2), while sharing single-game marks for doubles (3 - twice), sacrifice flies (2) and hit by pitch (3)...Concluded career ranked second in program history in HBP (38), third in RBIs (190), third in sac flies (15), fifth in total bases (450), sixth in at bats (844), ninth in home runs (42), 11th in hits (246) and 13th in games played (213)...Only player in program history with four seasons with 40-plus RBIs...Ranked second in CUSA as a senior with 16 home runs and 64 RBIs...Led all league players with 43 RBIs in 30 CUSA games...Became Mo State’s first ever three-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District selection in 2026...Went 4-for-4 with three doubles against Western Kentucky (April 17) to break the school career doubles record...CUSA Hitter of the Week on May 11, 2026, following consecutive five-RBI games against New Mexico State (May 8-9)...Concluded career with 72 multi-hit games and 51 multi-RBI efforts.
2025 (Junior)
Started all 47 games he played, splitting time between first base (29), left field (11) and designated hitter (7)...Batted .319 with five homers, 22 doubles and 44 RBIs...Doubles total ranked fourth on MSU’s single-season list and raised his career total to 59, good for third in school history...Slugged .541 with a .950 OPS...Became the 14th player in school history with three seasons with at least 40 RBIs...Had a 16-game hitting streak from March 8-April 18...Had 18 multi-hit games and 14 with multiple RBIs...Season highs of three hits came at Sam Houston (Feb. 16) and Wichita State (March 9)...Drove in three runs versus SIUE (March 16), Bradley (March 21), Missouri (April 22) and Illinois State (May 22)...Had multiple doubles in five separate games...Hit .351 in conference games...Tied a school record when he was hit by three pitches against Belmont (May 23), reaching safely five times in the game...Ended the season ranked ninth in MSU history with 27 HBP, 10th with 11 sacrifice flies and 14th with 87 extra-base hits.
2024 (Sophomore)
Started all but one game for the Bears and batted .318 with team highs of 18 doubles and 74 hits, both of which ranked in the top 10 in the MVC...Swatted 10 home runs while driving in 41...Slugged .524 with a .394 on-base percentage...Led the Bears with 24 multi-hit games...In 27 Valley games, hit .361 with a .622 slugging percentage...Had a pair of 10-game hit streaks and drove in multiple runs 11 times...Went 4-for-5 with three RBIs against Southern Illinois (May 16)...Drove in four runs on May 3 versus Murray State...Had three-hit games against ULM (Feb. 16), Arkansas State (March 1), UIC (April 12) and Evansville (April 28)...Doubled twice in a game on four occasions...Scored 47 runs, tying for fourth on the team.
2023 (Freshman)
Had a breakout freshman season by hitting .284 with 11 home runs and 41 RBIs...Started 55 games, the majority (46) in left field...Ranked second in the MVC with 19 doubles, good for fifth nationally among freshmen...Became the first player in school history to hit two grand slams in a game on April 9 versus Bradley, one in the first inning and another to end the game in the bottom of the ninth...Also had two homers against Belmont (April 20)...Tallied 30 extra-base hits on the year, trailing only Jason Hart (36 in 1996), Ryan Howard (33 in 1999) and Zack Stewart (32 in 2023) among true freshmen in Missouri State history...Hit a walk-off home run in the 10th inning against Valparaiso (April 30), his second such homer of the season...Doubled three times in his second career game (Feb. 18 at Cal Poly) to tie a school single-game record...Two sacrifice flies on March 14 against SEMO also tied a school record...Made one appearance on the mound, tossing two-thirds of an inning without allowing a run and becoming the first Bear to pitch and record a hit in the same game since 2016 on March 26 versus Evansville...Tallied 16 multi-hit games, including six with three or more...Had five games with three or more RBIs...Ranked third on the team in both on-base (.382) and slugging (.539) percentage.
Background
Two-way player and one of the top-rated prospects in Ontario when he signed with Missouri State...High school career was limited due to COVID restrictions in his native Canada...Played for the Mississauga HPP Tigers travel program, competing against college programs in the United States among other games and piling up 91 hits in 45 games for a .492 average...Played for the Clinton Lumberkings of the summer collegiate circuit’s Prospect League in 2022, batting .242 with 16 RBIs in 45 games while also posting a 3.09 ERA with 17 strikeouts in 11.2 innings on the mound.
Personal
Taeg Gollert is the son of Jeff and Deborah Gollert...Born April 4, 2003, in Toronto, Ontario...Brother, Harley, pitched collegiately at Austin Peay and Oral Roberts...Majoring in communication studies
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