2022 Baseball Roster
Hunter Stokely
- Position:
- 1B/OF
- B/T:
- L/R
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 240
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Major:
- Exercise And Sports Science
- Hometown:
- Wilson, N.C.
- High School:
- Fike
AS A GRADUATE STUDENT (2025)
• Started all 61 games at first base for the Diamond Heels.
• Recorded a .325 average with 53 runs scored, 13 doubles, and 65 RBIs.
• Ranked eighth in the ACC in RBIs and led the team in multi-RBI games with 20.
• More than doubled his highest single season home run output with 14 and doubled his career steals total with four.
• Earned All-ACC First Team honors, his first career all-conference nod.
• Won his first career ACC Player of the Week award, dominating a six-game stretch against East Carolina, VCU, NC A&T, and Stony Brook by slashing .524/.621/1.143 while racking up 11 hits, 11 RBIs, 10 runs, and 24 total bases.
• Tied his career high with four hits against East Carolina (2/23).
• Logged his first career multi-home run game against VCU (2/25), scoring three times and adding four RBIs.
• Hit the only walk-off home run of the season for the Tar Heels, finishing the game against Queens (4/30) in eight innings with a two-run shot.
• Drove in a career-high five RBIs off three hits in the Chapel Hill Super Regional opening win against Arizona (6/06).
• Named to the All-ACC Academic Team.
AS A SENIOR (2024)
• Appeared in three games for the Tar Heels before sustaining an injury.
• Had a plate appearance in each game, picking up a hit, a run, and a walk.
AS A JUNIOR (2023)
• Played in 56 games and made 51 starts at first base
• Posted career-highs for batting average (.317), runs (37), hits (63), doubles (15), home runs (6) and RBIs (36)
• Ranked second on the team in batting average, third in doubles and fifth in hits and RBIs
• Had five games with three or more RBIs and five games with three or more hits
• Longest hitting streak of the season was nine games (April 18 - May 2)
• Ended the season on six-game hitting streak
• Was 3-for-4 with a double, home run and thee RBIs against Penn State
• Belted his first career walk-off home run in game two of the Miami series in the 11th
• Finished a double shy of the cycle in that game
• Went 5-for-13 in the Miami series with two home runs and five RBIs
• Tied his career-high for hits with four at Georgia Tech in game one of a doubleheader (4/7)
• Hit two doubles against Queens (4/11) and versus Georgia Tech in the ACC Baseball Championship (5/23)
• Record a pair of three-game multi-hit streaks
• Drove in multiple runs in four of five games from April 7-14.
AS A SOPHOMORE (2022)
• Appeared in 59 games and made 51 starts at first base.
• Posted a final slash line of .285/.387/.376 with two home runs and 25 RBIs.
• Led the ACC in fielding double plays (44).
• Made 43 consecutive starts at first base from March 2 – May 19.
• Racked up 16 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games.
• Longest hitting streak of the season was eight games (April 12-24).
• Collected a career-best four hits in the series opener against Louisville (April 8).
• Made his first start March 2 against Winthrop going 2-for-3.
• Went 6-for-12 with four RBIs in the Coastal Carolina series.
• Was 6-for-15 with a home run and four RBIs in three games against Georgia Tech.
• Went 4-for-12 with a home run, double, triple and four RBIs during the three game series at NC State.
• Went 6-for-15 with two runs, two RBIs and three doubles at the ACC Baseball Championship tournament.
AS A FRESHMAN (2021)
• Saw action in 12 games with four starts at first base and two at designated hitter.
• Hit .185 with two home runs and three RBIs.
• Posted a slugging percentage of .444.
• Collected a hit in each of his first five games.
• Blasted bookend home runs in the series against NC State with a solo shot in the series opener and finale.
HIGH SCHOOL
• Four-year letterman at Fike High School for coach Buck Edmundson.
• Was named as a captain during his junior and senior seasons.
• Named to the all-state team his junior season and all-conference list during his freshman and junior campaigns.
• Member of the National Honor Society and National Honor Technical Society.
PERSONAL
• Full name is Hunter Burrell Stokely.
• Son of Cindy and Robert Stokely.
• Born on March 1, 2001.
• Has an older brother, Robbie, and older sister, Katie.
• Cousin of Carolina letterman Chad Flack.
Why he chose Carolina: I always wanted to come to North Carolina and play baseball. I want to help North Carolina get to Omaha and win it. UNC Baseball is in my family and I want to try to make the impact Chad Flack did.
