2014: Spent much of the season as Appalachian State’s Friday night starter … battled arm issues for much of the season and was limited to just 66.0 innings over 13 appearances (12 starts) … a season after recording a 2.1-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio as a sophomore in 2013, ratio dipped to 1.3-to-1 as a junior in ’14 (49 K, 37 BB) … only pitched past the seventh inning once in 12 starts … opened the season with three-straight losses to Arkansas (Feb. 14), NC State (Feb. 21) and Youngstown State (Feb. 28) … bounced back to limit UNC Asheville (March 8) to two runs on three hits over 6.1 innings to earn first win of the season … after a tough-luck loss to Michigan (6.1 IP, 4 H, 3 ER in 4-3 loss on March 14), struck out a season-best eight over 6.2 innings at Georgia Southern (March 21) but did not figure in the decision in the Mountaineers’ 7-4 defeat … turned in his finest performance of the season in his next start versus UNCG (March 28), scattering 10 hits and allowing just one earned run in a 4-2, complete-game victory that upped him to 2-4 on the campaign … allowed a hit to the only batter he faced in his only relief appearance of the season at South Carolina (April 1) … picked up third win by allowing four earned runs in six innings of 12-5 victory at Wofford (April 4) … suffered back-to-back losses to The Citadel (April 11) and Elon (April 18) … gutted out five innings (5 H, 4 ER) to record win against Davidson (April 25) … missed next two turns in rotation due to arm injury … returned to make start in final regular-season series against Furman but walked five and allowed five hits and four runs in 2.2 innings … was shut down for Southern Conference Tournament.

2013: First-team all-Southern Conference honoree as a sophomore ... led the SoCon and tied for 53rd nationally with nine victories ... also ranked among the SoCon leaders in innings pitched (97.2 — fourth), starts (15 — t-fourth), opponents’ batting average (.255) and strikeouts (77 — 11th) ... nine wins tied for fifth in school history, while 97.2 IP were good for third and 77 strikeouts ranked seventh in the program’s all-time annals ... held down the No. 1 spot in Appalachian State’s weekend rotation for the entire season ... opened the campaign by out-dueling all-American Carlos Rodon and limiting No. 8 and eventual College World Series participant NC State to one earned run and three hits over six innings in a 6-3 win over the Wolfpack ... picked up wins at Butler (7 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 6 K on Feb. 23) and at Davidson (7 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 8 K on March 1) to move to 3-0 on the campaign ... allowed just two earned runs over seven inning at Furman (March 8) but suffered his first loss of the season in 3-1 defeat ... rebounded to go a career-high eight innings and match a career-best with eight strikeouts in win over Cornell (March 16) ... allowed just two runs over seven innings and struck out six to knock off College of Charleston (March 22) and move to 5-1 on the season ... struck out eight but was tagged for seven runs in just five innings of work in loss to Wofford (March 29) ... bounced back to strike out six and allow just one earned run over seven innings in win over Georgia Southern (April 5) ... moved to 7-2 on the campaign by surrendering just one run over 7.2 innings in win over UNCG (April 12) ... after allowing five earned runs in loss at The Citadel (April 19), allowed just four earned runs and 14 hits over 15.1 innings of work to earn back-to-back wins over Samford (April 26) and Elon (May 3) and moved to 9-3 on the season ... was a tough-luck loser at Gonzaga (May 11), as he allowed just one run over six innings but was on the wrong end of a 4-0 decision ... suffered his worst outing of the year in regular-season finale vs. Western Carolina, allowing eight runs on eight hits in just 2.0 IP to fall to 9-5 on the year ... allowed five runs, five hits and five walks in six innings of work against The Citadel in the opening game of the SoCon Tournament (May 22) but did not figure in the decision in Appalachian’s 6-5 loss.

2012: Named to Louisville Slugger freshman all-America team by Collegiate Baseball newspaper ... member of Southern Conference all-freshman squad ... made 23 appearances as a freshman, including six mid-week starts ... was a part of a team-high three shutouts ... struck out 45 and walked only 16 in 46.2 innings pitched ... had multiple strikeouts in 12 of 23 appearances ... had his coming-out party in fourth appearance and second start of his career, when he struck out eight and allowed only an unearned run on three hits over six innings in a 6-3 win at Duke (March 13) ... the win over Duke was the second outing in a stretch of 11-straight appearances in which he allowed one earned run or less ... ran record to 3-0 by picking up wins in back-to-back appearances versus North Carolina A&T (5.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R — March 27) and Oakland (2.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R — March 31) ... moved to 4-0 by limiting High Point to one run on four hits over six innings (April 24) ... went to 5-0 by tossing 2.1 innings of relief in key win over Samford (May 13) ... perhaps ran out of gas down the stretch as a freshman, allowing multiple earned runs in six of his final 10 outings ... ERA rose from 1.50 entering May to 4.24 at season’s end ... suffered only losses of the season on the final weekend of the regular season at Western Carolina (May 17 and 19).

High School: Two-time all-conference and all-county honoree … excelled both on the mound and at the plate during prep career, posting a 2.81 ERA as a senior and 1.70 ERA as a junior while hitting .300 both years … named team’s Most Vaulable Defensive Player as a junior and senior and received Pitcher’s Award as a freshman and sophomore … ranked among North Carolina’s top 35 players by ImpactScout.com … coached by Mike Lovelace … high-school teammate of current Appalachian State teammate Bradley Morton ... also played for South Charlotte Panthers (coach Don Hutchins), the same program as current teammates Noah Holmes, Alex Leach, Bradley Morton, Ryan Ross, Jeffrey Springs and Drake Zupcic, as well as former Mountaineer standouts and 2012 MLB Draft selections Ryan Arrowood, Tyler Tewell and Tyler Zupcic … ranked No. 2 academically among 400 students in his graduating class.

Personal: Full name is James Foster Nunn … born Oct. 29, 1992 (22 years old) … son of Christy and Lee Nunn … enjoys playing drums and wakeboarding … majoring in chemistry … plans to attend medical school … member of Dean’s List and Appalachian State athletics and Southern Conference academic honor rolls.