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Jersey Number 21
Jack Frank
- Position:
- OF
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 195
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Strongsville, Ohio
- High School:
- Strongsville
Bio
CAREER NOTES: Named First Team All-Big Ten in senior season of 2024 ... Earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District in 2023 ... A four-time Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honoree ... Recipient of the 2023-24 MSU Athletics Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor (Male) Award ... Tabbed recipient of both the John Kobs Most Valuable Player Award in addition to the Kirk Gibson Co-Offensive Player of the Year Award for MSU Team Awards in senior season of 2024 ... Left mark on MSU’s career lists, including tied for No. 2 for doubles (48), No. 3 for runs (155), No. 5 for stolen bases (52), tied for No. 7 for home runs (26) and No. 10 for hits (226).
2024 (SENIOR): Named First Team All-Big Ten ... Named to the 64Analytics All-American Right Fielder list ... Recipient of the MSU Athletics Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor (Male) Award ... Earned two MSU team awards as the recipient of both the John Kobs Most Valuable Player Award in addition to the Kirk Gibson Co-Offensive Player of the Year Award ... Earned Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Led the Big Ten in B1G only games with a .439 average, as well as a .509 on-base percentage in B1G only games, ranking second in the league, as well as a .724 slugging percentage and a 1.233 in B1G only games, both also ranking second in the conference ... Posted a 1.089 OPS in all games, ranking fifth in the league ... In overall games, was tied for seventh in doubles (17), tying with teammate Dillon Kark ... Knocked 11 doubles in B1G only games, also good for second, boosted by four doubles in the final weekend series of the weekend against Nebraska ... In the season finale, went out with a bang in final game as a Spartan, going 4-for-5 with two doubles, logging three RBI and two runs scored ... With the four hits, matched his jersey number with his 21st multi-hit game, as well as his fourth game with four or more hits ... Also swiped 19 stolen bases on the season, finishing fourth in the league overall ... One of three Spartans to start and play in all 51 games, also led the Spartans in average (.383), slugging percentage (.573) and on-base percentage (.467), along with runs scored (55), hits (80), triples (3), home runs (9), stolen bases (19) and total bases (130), while ranking tied for first in doubles (17) and second in RBI (40) and walks (32) ... The 17 doubles are tied for No. 14 on MSU’s single-season doubles list, while the 19 stolen bases tied for 17th on the Spartans’ single-season stolen base list, matching his 19 swipes from the 2023 season.
2023 (JUNIOR): Named College Sports Communicators Academic All-District ... Collected Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades ... Started all 55 games, one of four Spartans to start and play in all 55 games, starting all 55 games in right field, one of three Spartans to start every game at same position (Brock Vradenburg at 1B and Casey Mayes at LF) ... Finished sixth on the team with a .299 average, adding a .456 slugging percentage and .418 on-base percentage ... Led MSU and ranked sixth in the B1G with 19 stolen bases ... Was also second on MSU and 29th in the B1G in RBI (45), as well as third on team and 26th in B1G in runs scored (48), along with fourth on MSU and 32nd in the B1G in hits (61), in addition to tied for team lead and tied for 20th in B1G in hit by pitch (11) ... Was also fifth on team and tied for 36th in the B1G in on-base percentage (.418) ... He finished tied for third on the team with seven home runs and fourth in total bases with 93 ... Logged 14 multiple hit games, split with seven two-hit outings and seven three-hit contests ... Second on team with 12 multiple RBI games, highlighted by season-high four ribbies at Charleston Southern (March 4), going 2-for-6 with a double and home run, as well as five games with three RBI and six contests with two RBI ... Second on team with a 13-game hitting streak, posting at least one hit from April 8-29 ... Tied for seventh with 17-game reached base streak from April 8-May 6 ... Had at least one hit in 40 of the 55 games ... Posted season-high seven total bases in each game of the doubleheader vs. Western Illinois on April 15, going 3-for-4 with a single, double and home run, posting three RBI and two runs scored in the opener and going 3-for-4 with a single, double and home run with two RBI and three runs scored in the night cap ... Went 7-for-15 in the three games vs. Indiana (May 18-20) in the final regular-season series, helping MSU win two games and clinch berth in B1G Tournament, logging a 3-for-5 outing with three RBI and two runs scored in the series opener, knocking a three-run double in the sixth to put MSU ahead, 5-4 ... In game two, was 1-for-5 with a two-run double in the sixth to extend the Spartan advantage to 7-4 and they hung on to win 7-6 and clinch their B1G Tournament berth with the Victory for MSU ... Finished series vs IU and regular-season action with a 3-for-5 outing with one RBI and two runs scored ... In the field, posted a .976 fielding percentage with 121 putouts and two assists.
2022 (SOPHOMORE): Garnered Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades ... Played and started in 53 of the 54 games ... Finished third on team with a .294 average, while topping team with nine home runs and a .527 slugging percentage, and sharing the team lead with 38 runs scored ... Also topped the team with 16 doubles, as well as second on the team with 34 RBI and third on team with both 59 hits and drawing 25 walks, along with ranking fourth with 201 at bats ... Had an eight-game hitting streak to open the season (Feb. 18-March 4), along with three different five-game hitting streaks, part of having at least one hit in 39 of the 53 games played ... Ranked third on team with 17 multi-hit games, including 14 contests with two hits, while logging three hits in three games, tying career-best, doing so in home opener vs. Houston Baptist (March 18), along with vs. Youngstown State (March 30) and at Michigan (April 17) ... Registered career-high three RBI vs. Youngstown State (March 30) ... Logged one double in 16 different games, including streak of four-straight games (Feb. 27-March 4), as well as a three-game spurt (March 30-April 2) ... Had two extra base hits in same game four times, first in home-opener vs. Houston Baptist (March 18) with a double and home run; vs. Youngstown State (3/30/22) with double and home run, and vs. Michigan (April 15) at Jackson Field, with triple and home run, part of career-high eight total bases; and at Michigan (May 17) with double and home run ... Scored career-high three runs in three games, home-opener vs. Houston Baptist (March 18), vs. Youngstown State (March 30) and at Michigan (May 17) ... In field, drew starts at all three outfield positions, with 27 games in center, 19 in right and five in left, as well as two starts at DH ... Posted a .992 fielding percentage with 118 putouts and two assists.
2021 (FRESHMAN): Earned Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades ... Played in 15 games after recovering from preseason injury ... Posted a .266 average with 17 hits, three going for extra bases, all on doubles, logging 17 RBI, seven walks and three stolen bases ... Logged season-high four-game hitting streak in first four games (March 27-April 3) with six hits, including two doubles, highlighted by back-to-back two-hit outings in pair of games at Minnesota (April 2-3), along with a double each vs. Indiana (March 28) and at Minnesota (April 3), part of going 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI, adding two walks ... Added another four-game hit streak (April 9-12) with one hit in each game ... Knocked season-high three hits going 3-for-5 with a stolen base at Penn State (May 2) ... Made 10 putouts playing in outfield, including season-high five vs. Michigan (5/8/21).
2020 (FRESHMAN): Named No. 18 Preseason Impact Freshman in Big Ten by D1Baseball.com ... Played in 12 of the 15 games in shortened season ... Hit .209 with nine hits, logging one double, one triple and one home run on way to a .349 slugging percentage and a .227 on-base percentage ... Made 10 starts, all in the outfield, drawing seven in left field and three in right field, including starting all four games of opening weekend, making smashing Spartan debut going 3-for-6 with lone double of season to go with two RBI, adding a stolen base, in season-opener vs. Morehead State (Feb. 14) ... Capped off opening weekend by bashing MSU’s first home run of the season with a two-run shot in series finale vs. Morehead State (Feb. 16) ... Logged hit that proved to be Spartans’ game-winning run with an RBI single in 4-3 Victory for MSU over Western Carolina (Feb. 29) ... Knocked lone triple of the year in game vs. Ball State (March 1) ... Posted a season-long three-game hitting streak (Feb. 23-March 1), while having a hit in five of the last six games of the shortened season ... Logged a 1.000 fielding percentage in the outfield with 23 putouts and two assists.
HIGH SCHOOL: A four-year letterwinner at Strongsville High School for head coach Doug Cicerchi ... Earned first-team All-State and All-Region accolades, along with being named the Conference Player of the Year and also first-team All-Conference as a senior ... Collected first-team All-Conference accolades as a junior ... Earned first-team All-Conference and All-District honors as a sophomore in helping Strongsville to OHSAA Division I state baseball championship game, falling to Massillon Jackson ... Rated as the No. 2 outfielder and No. 3 overall player in Ohio by Prep Baseball Report ... Rated as the No. 24 outfielder and No. 134 overall player in the country by PBR ... Played summer league for Team Ohio and the Lake Erie Warhawks ... A member of the SHS Math Honor’s Society and four-time recipient of the Academic Excellence award, ranked in the top 15 percent of his class academically ... Chose MSU over Ohio State, Purdue, Cincinnati, Xavier, Wright State and Kent State.
PERSONAL: Son of Will Frank and Rene Atkinson ... His father played baseball at Albany ... Majoring in finance in the Broad College of Business, with career ambitions of pursuing a career in financial advising whenever his baseball career is over.
2024 (SENIOR): Named First Team All-Big Ten ... Named to the 64Analytics All-American Right Fielder list ... Recipient of the MSU Athletics Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor (Male) Award ... Earned two MSU team awards as the recipient of both the John Kobs Most Valuable Player Award in addition to the Kirk Gibson Co-Offensive Player of the Year Award ... Earned Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Led the Big Ten in B1G only games with a .439 average, as well as a .509 on-base percentage in B1G only games, ranking second in the league, as well as a .724 slugging percentage and a 1.233 in B1G only games, both also ranking second in the conference ... Posted a 1.089 OPS in all games, ranking fifth in the league ... In overall games, was tied for seventh in doubles (17), tying with teammate Dillon Kark ... Knocked 11 doubles in B1G only games, also good for second, boosted by four doubles in the final weekend series of the weekend against Nebraska ... In the season finale, went out with a bang in final game as a Spartan, going 4-for-5 with two doubles, logging three RBI and two runs scored ... With the four hits, matched his jersey number with his 21st multi-hit game, as well as his fourth game with four or more hits ... Also swiped 19 stolen bases on the season, finishing fourth in the league overall ... One of three Spartans to start and play in all 51 games, also led the Spartans in average (.383), slugging percentage (.573) and on-base percentage (.467), along with runs scored (55), hits (80), triples (3), home runs (9), stolen bases (19) and total bases (130), while ranking tied for first in doubles (17) and second in RBI (40) and walks (32) ... The 17 doubles are tied for No. 14 on MSU’s single-season doubles list, while the 19 stolen bases tied for 17th on the Spartans’ single-season stolen base list, matching his 19 swipes from the 2023 season.
2023 (JUNIOR): Named College Sports Communicators Academic All-District ... Collected Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades ... Started all 55 games, one of four Spartans to start and play in all 55 games, starting all 55 games in right field, one of three Spartans to start every game at same position (Brock Vradenburg at 1B and Casey Mayes at LF) ... Finished sixth on the team with a .299 average, adding a .456 slugging percentage and .418 on-base percentage ... Led MSU and ranked sixth in the B1G with 19 stolen bases ... Was also second on MSU and 29th in the B1G in RBI (45), as well as third on team and 26th in B1G in runs scored (48), along with fourth on MSU and 32nd in the B1G in hits (61), in addition to tied for team lead and tied for 20th in B1G in hit by pitch (11) ... Was also fifth on team and tied for 36th in the B1G in on-base percentage (.418) ... He finished tied for third on the team with seven home runs and fourth in total bases with 93 ... Logged 14 multiple hit games, split with seven two-hit outings and seven three-hit contests ... Second on team with 12 multiple RBI games, highlighted by season-high four ribbies at Charleston Southern (March 4), going 2-for-6 with a double and home run, as well as five games with three RBI and six contests with two RBI ... Second on team with a 13-game hitting streak, posting at least one hit from April 8-29 ... Tied for seventh with 17-game reached base streak from April 8-May 6 ... Had at least one hit in 40 of the 55 games ... Posted season-high seven total bases in each game of the doubleheader vs. Western Illinois on April 15, going 3-for-4 with a single, double and home run, posting three RBI and two runs scored in the opener and going 3-for-4 with a single, double and home run with two RBI and three runs scored in the night cap ... Went 7-for-15 in the three games vs. Indiana (May 18-20) in the final regular-season series, helping MSU win two games and clinch berth in B1G Tournament, logging a 3-for-5 outing with three RBI and two runs scored in the series opener, knocking a three-run double in the sixth to put MSU ahead, 5-4 ... In game two, was 1-for-5 with a two-run double in the sixth to extend the Spartan advantage to 7-4 and they hung on to win 7-6 and clinch their B1G Tournament berth with the Victory for MSU ... Finished series vs IU and regular-season action with a 3-for-5 outing with one RBI and two runs scored ... In the field, posted a .976 fielding percentage with 121 putouts and two assists.
2022 (SOPHOMORE): Garnered Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades ... Played and started in 53 of the 54 games ... Finished third on team with a .294 average, while topping team with nine home runs and a .527 slugging percentage, and sharing the team lead with 38 runs scored ... Also topped the team with 16 doubles, as well as second on the team with 34 RBI and third on team with both 59 hits and drawing 25 walks, along with ranking fourth with 201 at bats ... Had an eight-game hitting streak to open the season (Feb. 18-March 4), along with three different five-game hitting streaks, part of having at least one hit in 39 of the 53 games played ... Ranked third on team with 17 multi-hit games, including 14 contests with two hits, while logging three hits in three games, tying career-best, doing so in home opener vs. Houston Baptist (March 18), along with vs. Youngstown State (March 30) and at Michigan (April 17) ... Registered career-high three RBI vs. Youngstown State (March 30) ... Logged one double in 16 different games, including streak of four-straight games (Feb. 27-March 4), as well as a three-game spurt (March 30-April 2) ... Had two extra base hits in same game four times, first in home-opener vs. Houston Baptist (March 18) with a double and home run; vs. Youngstown State (3/30/22) with double and home run, and vs. Michigan (April 15) at Jackson Field, with triple and home run, part of career-high eight total bases; and at Michigan (May 17) with double and home run ... Scored career-high three runs in three games, home-opener vs. Houston Baptist (March 18), vs. Youngstown State (March 30) and at Michigan (May 17) ... In field, drew starts at all three outfield positions, with 27 games in center, 19 in right and five in left, as well as two starts at DH ... Posted a .992 fielding percentage with 118 putouts and two assists.
2021 (FRESHMAN): Earned Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades ... Played in 15 games after recovering from preseason injury ... Posted a .266 average with 17 hits, three going for extra bases, all on doubles, logging 17 RBI, seven walks and three stolen bases ... Logged season-high four-game hitting streak in first four games (March 27-April 3) with six hits, including two doubles, highlighted by back-to-back two-hit outings in pair of games at Minnesota (April 2-3), along with a double each vs. Indiana (March 28) and at Minnesota (April 3), part of going 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI, adding two walks ... Added another four-game hit streak (April 9-12) with one hit in each game ... Knocked season-high three hits going 3-for-5 with a stolen base at Penn State (May 2) ... Made 10 putouts playing in outfield, including season-high five vs. Michigan (5/8/21).
2020 (FRESHMAN): Named No. 18 Preseason Impact Freshman in Big Ten by D1Baseball.com ... Played in 12 of the 15 games in shortened season ... Hit .209 with nine hits, logging one double, one triple and one home run on way to a .349 slugging percentage and a .227 on-base percentage ... Made 10 starts, all in the outfield, drawing seven in left field and three in right field, including starting all four games of opening weekend, making smashing Spartan debut going 3-for-6 with lone double of season to go with two RBI, adding a stolen base, in season-opener vs. Morehead State (Feb. 14) ... Capped off opening weekend by bashing MSU’s first home run of the season with a two-run shot in series finale vs. Morehead State (Feb. 16) ... Logged hit that proved to be Spartans’ game-winning run with an RBI single in 4-3 Victory for MSU over Western Carolina (Feb. 29) ... Knocked lone triple of the year in game vs. Ball State (March 1) ... Posted a season-long three-game hitting streak (Feb. 23-March 1), while having a hit in five of the last six games of the shortened season ... Logged a 1.000 fielding percentage in the outfield with 23 putouts and two assists.
HIGH SCHOOL: A four-year letterwinner at Strongsville High School for head coach Doug Cicerchi ... Earned first-team All-State and All-Region accolades, along with being named the Conference Player of the Year and also first-team All-Conference as a senior ... Collected first-team All-Conference accolades as a junior ... Earned first-team All-Conference and All-District honors as a sophomore in helping Strongsville to OHSAA Division I state baseball championship game, falling to Massillon Jackson ... Rated as the No. 2 outfielder and No. 3 overall player in Ohio by Prep Baseball Report ... Rated as the No. 24 outfielder and No. 134 overall player in the country by PBR ... Played summer league for Team Ohio and the Lake Erie Warhawks ... A member of the SHS Math Honor’s Society and four-time recipient of the Academic Excellence award, ranked in the top 15 percent of his class academically ... Chose MSU over Ohio State, Purdue, Cincinnati, Xavier, Wright State and Kent State.
PERSONAL: Son of Will Frank and Rene Atkinson ... His father played baseball at Albany ... Majoring in finance in the Broad College of Business, with career ambitions of pursuing a career in financial advising whenever his baseball career is over.
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