2017 - 2018 GATORADE
NATIONAL BASEBALL
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
RYAN
WEATHERS
LEFT-HANDED PITCHER/FIRST BASEMAN/OUTFIELDER
LORETTO HS
LORETTO, TENNESSEE
SENIOR
HEIGHT: 6-FOOT-2
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HIGHLIGHTED STATS
0.11
ERA
132
STRIKEOUTS
65
INNINGS PITCHED
.455
BATTING AVERAGE
“Ryan is the best high school pitcher I have ever seen. He throws 3-4 different pitches and has command of all of them. What makes him so good on the mound is also his competitiveness. He makes everyone else around him better.”
Jason Burleson
Head Coach at Summertown High

Athletic Excellence


The 6-foot-2, 220-pound senior left-handed pitcher, first baseman and outfielder had led the Mustangs to a 31-2 record at the time of his selection. Weathers owned a 9-0 record with a 0.11 earned run average and 132 strikeouts in 65 innings pitched, allowing just 19 hits and nine walks through 33 games. At the plate, Weathers had posted a .455 batting average with eight doubles, 25 runs scored, 13 steals and a .742 slugging percentage. The 2017 Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association Mr. Baseball winner, he won a gold medal with the USA Baseball team at the 2017 U-18 World Cup in Canada.

Academic Achievement


Weathers has maintained an A average in the classroom. He has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball on scholarship at Vanderbilt University this fall, but is projected as an early-round selection in June’s Major League Baseball draft.

Exemplary Character


Weathers, whose father David pitched in the major leagues for 19 years, is an active member of the school’s chapter of the National Beta Club and is deeply committed to the Liberty Grove Missionary Baptist Church community.