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2024 Baseball Roster

Darl Zehr/Cornell Athletics

40 Nathan Waugh

  • Position Catcher
  • Ht./Wt. 6-5 / 230
  • Class Senior
  • Bats / Throws R/R
  • Hometown Placentia, Calif.
  • High School Yorba Linda HS

Biography

2024 | SENIOR SEASON
One of two Cornell players to appear in all 38 games on season (Caden Wildman), earning starts in 37 contests (20 as designated hitter and 17 at catcher) ... batted .283 with nine doubles, seven home runs, and 31 RBI ... reached base safely in all 38 games of season, concluding Cornell career with a 42-game on-base streak, matching Nathan Ford (2007-08) for longest on-base streak on record in program history ... drew team-leading 26 walks on season ... lone Big Red player to score 40 runs on season (40) ... opened season with 15-game hit streak; streak was officially 19 games after concluding 2023 season with hits in final four games ... recorded home runs in first two games of series against Richmond (March 15-16) ... hit two home runs against Columbia (April 27), where he went 2-for-4 with three runs scored and five RBI ... went 3-for-4 with two runs scored, two doubles, and a home run against Binghamton (May 1) ... notched four multi-hit efforts in final six games of season and scored at least one run in final eight contests ... committed just two errors in 130 fielding chances (.985 fielding percentage).

2023 | JUNIOR SEASON
Named Honorable Mention All-Ivy after posting a team-leading .330 batting average with seven doubles, six home runs and 23 RBI ... went 4-for-5 with three runs scored, two doubles, a home run and four RBI against Columbia (April 2) ... also drove in four RBI against Brown (April 8) ... also had a four-hit game against Princeton (April 22) in which he went 4-for-5 with two runs and a double ... had doubles in all three games against Princeton (April 21-22) ... successfully caught 13 runners stealing in 46 attempts (28.3 percent) ... posted .986 fielding percentage after having just two errors in 142 fielding chances ... named to Buster Posey Award watch list.

2022 | SOPHOMORE SEASON
Made 32 appearances and made 27 starts for the Big Red, all of which came behind the plate ... batted .310 with five doubles, three triples, five home runs, and 18 RBI ... finished with for team lead in on-base percentage (.409), and was second in team in home runs ... drove in six RBI during three-game series against Yale (April 1-3), which included a pair of three-RBI games. 

2021 | FRESHMAN SEASON
Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

PRIOR TO CORNELL
Helped Yorba Linda HS reach the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division 3 semifinals ... earned 2020 Perfect Game Preseason All-American Honorable Mention for the California Region.

PERSONAL
Nathaniel Michael Waugh is the son of Matthew and Heather Waugh, and he has a younger brother ... enrolled in the College of Engineering.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 40

    2021Freshman

    Catcher
    6'5" 230 lbs
    40
  • 40

    2022Sophomore

    Catcher
    6'5" 230 lbs
    40
  • 40

    2023Junior

    Catcher
    6'5" 230 lbs
    40
  • 40

    2024Senior

    Catcher
    6'5" 230 lbs
    40