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Jersey Number 11
Tyler Cox
- Position:
- INF
- B/T:
- R/R
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 195
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Valley Glen, Calif.
- High School:
- Harvard-Westlake
- Prev School:
- Dartmouth
Bio
JUNIOR (2025)
PRIOR TO UH
HIGH SCHOOL
PERSONAL
- All-Silver Glove Series Shortstop selection
- Only Cougar to start all 55 games, all at shortstop
- Third on the team in batting average (.269)
- Led the team in conference play in batting average (.289)
- Fourth on the team in hits (42)
- Go-ahead RBI double at Kansas State (4/27)
- Fourth on the team with nine multi-hit games
- Second on the team with nine multi-RBI games
- First hit as a Cougar in home state at Cal in two-hit game (2/21)
- Five game hit streak was fourth-longest on team
- Hit .400 in the month of May with a team-best 14 hits in the month and 11 RBI
- Four-game multi-hit streak to open May with eight hits against Utah (5/2-4) and two at Arizona State (5/9) ended in a 10 for 13 stretch with five RBI
PRIOR TO UH
- Ivy League Rookie of the Year (2022)
- All-Ivy League First Team (2022)
- All-New England Second Team (2022)
- Dartmouth Rookie of the Year (2022 Team Award)
- 2x Ivy League Rookie of the Week (March 7, 2022 and April 4, 2022)
- 2x DartmouthSports.com Male Athlete of the Week (April 4, 2022; March 21, 2023)
- In 2023 Ranked the 46th-best Division I shortstop prior to the season by D1Baseball.com, and 28th best 6 weeks into 2023.
- In 2022, Blair Bat Award winner for having the highest batting average in Ivy league play (.464)
- Led the conference and ranked in the top 10 in Division I in three statistical categories: batting average (.402, 10th), hits per game (1.72, fifth) and toughest to strike out (once every 15.3 at-bats, ninth)
- First Big Green player to hit .400 for a full season in 18 years and just the 10th ever to do so in 2022
- His 74 hits in 2022 (one shy of the program and Ivy League record) and 109 assists in the field also topped the Ancient Eight, while he ranked fourth in on-base percentage (.452), tied for fifth in stolen bases (11) and 10th in RBIs (40) as primarily while hitting almost exclusively from the top two spots in the order
- In conference play, his 45 hits (Ivy League record) were 11 more than anyone else and he led the league with a .514 on-base percentage
- Recorded 23 multi-hit games to pace the circuit
- Career: .380 AVG, 64 G, 100 H, 33 BB, 16 K, .449 OBP, .905 OPS, 16 SB
- Houston’s second player in the last three years to transfer from Dartmouth
HIGH SCHOOL
- Helped Harvard-Westlake go 27-6-1 as a senior and reach the championship game of both the 2019 USA Baseball National High School Invitational (NHSI) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division I playoffs in which MaxPreps had the Wolverines ranked third nationally that season
- Did not play at Phillips due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Spent his freshman year at Oaks Christian School.
PERSONAL
- Parents are Richard and Sarah Cox
- Has one sister, Willow
- Cousin Bryn Boucher helped Maryland reach the lacrosse national championship game in each of her four years (2013-16), winning the title twice
- Father, Richard, is an actor who was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best Actor category in 1979 and has over 100 television and film credits on his IMDb page
- Attended 14 different schools since preschool
- Is ambidextrous, can throw with both hands
- Dream job outside of baseball: food critic
- Hidden talent: juggling
- Chose UH because of Justin Murray
- If he could eat one food for the rest of his life: chilaquiles
Media Availability: HC Todd Whitting, Antoine Jean, Malachi Lott
Friday, May 23
Media Availability: HC Todd Whitting, Connor McGinnis, Andres Perez
Thursday, May 22
Highlights: Houston 9, Kansas State 2
Thursday, May 22
Highlights: Houston 13, Arizona 4
Thursday, May 15
