2023 Baseball Roster
Roster
Travis Welker
- Position:
- Infield
- Height:
- 5-8
- Weight:
- 170
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Santa Ynez, Calif.
- High School:
- Santa Ynez HS
- Prev School:
- Allan Hancock College
ACCOLADES:
- 2023 Mountain West All-Tournament Team
- 2023 Mountain West Scholar-Athlete
- 2023 Mountain West Academic All-Conference
- 2022 Mountain West Scholar-Athlete
- 2022 Mountain West Academic All-Conference
2023 (SENIOR): Welker owned a .298 average in his senior season for the 'Dogs, the second most on the team... started at shortstop in 56 games... acquired 56 hits and 31 runs in 188 at-bats... tallied doubles and a triple... added 19 RBIs and 65 total bases with a .346 slugging percentage... drew 17 walks and struckout only 14 times, making him the 16th toughest batter to strike out in the nation... responsible for 99 putouts and 155 assists at shortstop with 12 errors against him for fielding average of .955...
2022 (JUNIOR): Welker played in 50 games in his first season as a Bulldog ... made 43 starts, all at shortstop ... hit .281 from the plate ... collected 38 hits in 135 at-bats ... tallied 17 RBIs ... scored 28 runs ... racked up four doubles, a triple and smacked a home run against Sacramento State (May 10) ... totaled 47 bases ... slugged .348 with a .388 on-base percentage ... drew 21 walks and struck out 18 ... hit by three pitches ... recorded a .951 fielding percentage ... ranked second in the MW with seven sacrifice bunts ... added a sacrifice fly at Cal Poly (Feb. 22) ... accumulated 11 multi-hit games with a season-high three in three games, vs. Long Beach State (March 22), at Air Force (April 24) and at San Jose State (May 8) ... drove in a pair of RBIs in three games ... scored multiple runs in seven games with a season-high three at Air Force (April 23) ... named Academic All-Mountain West ... also tabbed Mountain West Scholar-Athlete.
Prior to Fresno State: Earned First Team All-Conference and Gold Glove honors at Allan Hancock College in 2019... also earned All-Conference and Gold Glove honors in 2021 ... Western State-North Player of the Year in 2021 ... also earned first team All-Area California honors and Pacific Association First Team All-American honors in 2021 ... hit .369 in 2021 with 31 hits, five doubles, one home run, 20 RBI, 31 runs scored, 10 stolen bases, 20 walks with a .514 on-base percentage.
High School: Welker played four years of varsity baseball for Santa Ynez High School ... 2018 graduate ... made the All-Los Padres League First Team his senior season after hitting .388, scoring 34 runs, and driving in 14 more. He legged out three doubles and three triples and posted a .464 on-base percentage ... drove in 26 runs his junior season ... his older brother, Ryan, was an all-conference catcher for Hancock before transferring to play baseball at California State University, Los Angeles.
