Sam Angelo

Photo by: AINSLEY E. FAUTH

Position:
INF
B/T:
L/L
Height:
6-0
Weight:
225
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Toms River, N.J.
High School:
Toms River North

AS A GRADUATE STUDENT (2025)
• Played in 43 games for the Tar Heels, making 31 starts at DH.
• Totaled .238 with six homers, four doubles, and 22 RBIs on the season.
• Really got his bat going in the NCAA tournament, hitting .296 with four home runs and 11 RBIs.
• Highlight of his season came in the Chapel Hill Regional against Oklahoma (5/31) when he knocked a pair of home runs to put UNC one win away from advancing.
• Named to the Chapel Hill Regional All-Tournament team for his performance.
• Hit home runs in back-to-back at-bats across the first two games of the Chapel Hill Super Regional against Arizona (6/6-7).
• Brought in three-runs in the 11-1 run-rule win over Gardner-Webb. His double in the sixth pushed the lead to 10, helping the Heels secure their first no-hitter this century.

AT MONTCLAIR STATE (2020-24)
• Two-time D3Baseball.com First Team All-American (2023, 24)
• Named ABCA First Team All-America in 2024, was second team in 2023.
• Two-time D3Baseball.com Region 4 and NJAC Player of the Year, the first player in the program’s history to garner multiple player of the year honors.
• Led the team in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, hits, runs, doubles, and home runs in both of his final two seasons with the Red Hawks.
• Finished his time with the Red Hawks with a .416 batting average, 181 hits, 45 doubles, 35 homers, 151 RBIs, 100 walks and a .789 slugging percentage.
• Tied for eighth in the nation in home runs as a senior with 18, the third most in program history.
• His .896 slugging percentage in 2024 was the second best in the team’s history.
• Tied the program record with nine RBIs on a career-high five hits against Redlands (3/12/24).

PERSONAL
• Son of Darcy and Mark Angelo.
• Has three siblings: Evan, Josh and Lauren.
• Favorite movie is Star Wars.
• Favorite athlete is Freddie Freeman.