Missouri State

Honors
• MVC Defensive Player of the Year (2025)
• All-MVC Second Team (2025)
• MVC All-Defensive Team (2025)
• Brooks Wallace Award watch list (2025)
• Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025) 

Senior (2025)/Career Summary
MVC Defensive Player of the Year and a second-team all-conference pick...Batted .321 with a .432 on-base percentage...Had five home runs, nine doubles, 29 RBIs and 39 runs scored...Had a career-long hitting streak from March 29-April 18 and reached in 24 consecutive games from March 18-May 2...Led the Bears with 15 steals in 17 attempts...Collected a career-high four hits against Indiana State (May 10)...In 109 career games for the Bears, hit .279 with nine home runs, 60 RBIs, 19 doubles, 78 runs scored, 33 steals and a .967 fielding percentage in 389 chances...Career stolen base percentage of .892 ranked fifth in school history.

2024 (Senior)
Missouri State’s everyday shortstop, starting 56 of 57 games...Committed only seven errors on the season for a .968 fielding percentage, and ranked 10th in the MVC with 29 double plays turned...Led the conference with nine sacrifice bunts...Stole 18 bases in 20 tries, ranking fourth in the league in thefts with the most by a Bear since 2018...Batted .245 with 15 extra-base hits and 31 RBIs...Drove in three or more runs in five games...Collected five RBIs against Illinois State (March 29) and Murray State (May 4) in a game in which he homered and reached safely four times...Drove in four runs against Arkansas State (March 2)...Stole multiple bases on four occasions...Homered at Oral Roberts (Feb. 20) and Bradley (April 6) as part of a three-RBI day.

Background
Epstein played four seasons at Division II Nova Southeastern in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he earned Sunshine State Conference Freshman of the Year honors in 2021 and posted a career .304 batting average in 105 games...Hit .360 or better in both 2020 and 2021, and finished his career with the Sharks with a .410 on-base percentage, .416 slugging percentage and 43 stolen bases in 49 attempts.

Personal
Tyler Epstein is the son of Jennifer Epstein...Born December 7, 2000, in Aventura, Fla....Working towards his MBA.