The 6-foot-2, 190-pound senior shortstop batted .377 with four home runs, 32 runs scored and 25 stolen bases this past season, leading the Lions (17-13) to the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division I state tournament. Ranked as the nation's No. 3 recruit in the Class of 2017 by Perfect Game and No. 5 by Baseball America, Lewis was a member of the USA Baseball's 18U National Team that won gold at the COPABE Pan American Championships in Mexico last summer.
Lewis has maintained a 3.10 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball on scholarship at the University of California-Irvine this fall, but is projected as an early round selection in June's Major League Baseball draft.
Lewis has volunteered locally on behalf of Rady's Children's Hospital in San Diego, the Ronald McDonald House Charities and at a homeless shelter. "Royce Lewis is the best player I have seen at the high school level," said Shawn Gilbert, head coach at Servite High. "He is a legit five-tool guy that will be or should be taken in the first couple picks of the draft. One of the things that stands out is he plays the game right. He plays hard and looks like he loves to play."
