Will Geerdes

2022
• Signed a free agent contract with San Diego Padres after the season.
• Made 24 appearances on the mound including two starts – ODU (April 12) & VCU (April 19).
• Finished 11 games for UVA, the most on the staff and the 11th-most in the ACC.
• Was credited with the win in the season opener against Bellarmine, after he pitched 3.2 scoreless innings of relief, allowed only one hit and struck out two. He got the Cavaliers out of a bases loaded jam in the fifth and stranded the tying run in scoring position in the eighth.
• Picked up his second win in a 7-6 series opening victory over Boston College on March 18. He retired all six batters he faced and struck out one.
• Over his first nine appearances with UVA he went 2-0 sported a 0.71 ERA in 12.2 innings pitched.
• Recorded one of the team’s three bullpen holds by pitching a scoreless inning against Longwood on May 11.
• Struck out all three batters he faced on 11 pitches against Cornell on Feb. 27, his second appearance of the season.
• Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll

SUMMER 2021: Appeared in two games for Healdsburg Prune Packers of the California Collegiate League … In five appearances (two starts) was 1-0 with 5.92 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 13.2 innings pitched … Healdsburg won the 2021 CCL Championship

PRIOR TO VIRGINIA
• Played two seasons at Columbia University (2019 & 2020)
• Sat out the 2019 season due to an injury and the Ivy League canceled the 2021 season
• Started two games in 2020 before season was cut short due to COVID19 pandemic
• Tossed five shutout innings and struck out six batters against Nebraska on March 7

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS
• A 2018 graduate of International School of Americas, a magnet school on the Robert E. Lee High School campus
• Four-year letter winner with the Robert E. Lee Volunteer
• Perfect Game Preseason All-American and All-Region Team in 2018
• Academic All-State as senior and junior
• Two-time captain
• Tossed a pair of no-hitters in 2017
• Sandy Koufax Scholar Athlete Award Winner
• Perfect Game Preseason All-American and All-Region Team in 2018
• Graduated Summa Cum Laude

PERSONAL
• Born in San Antonio, Texas
• Son of Greg and Barbara Geerdes
• Has one younger sister, Cate