2024 Baseball Roster

AJ Henderson - Sun Belt Conferen
David Katzenmaier

10 CJ Boyd

  • Position Outfielder
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 190
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Lewisville, N.C.
  • High School Reagan
  • Prev School East Carolina

Biography

App State career home run record holder with 35
2024 Sun Belt All-Tournament Team
2024 Preseason All-Sun Belt
2023 1st Team All-Sun Belt
2023 Sun Belt All-Tournament Team

2024:
Started all 55 games for the Mountaineers slashing .301/.403/.594 with 11 doubles, 18 home runs and 58 RBIs...Tallied four hits and four RBIs to win rubber game over Gardner-Webb Feb. 18...Homered in each game of a doubleheader against Troy April 13...Hit game-tying three-run home run down to final out in ninth inning in 12-12 tie at Arkansas Statte April 21...Hit walk-off single in ninth inning in 12-11 win over ETSU on April 23...Blasted 33rd career home run vs South Alabama on May 5 to tie him with Andre Crawford for most in a career in program history,.,Broke career-home run record with two-homer game against Troy in the Sun Belt Tournament on May 22...Named to SBC All-Tournament team for second consecutive year...Finished the season with 19 multi-hit games and 14 multi-RBI games, and tallied a 10-game hitting streak...Ranked tied for third in the Sun Belt in home runs and tied for eighth in runs scored...Finished second all-time in single-season home runs (18), 10th in single-season RBIs (58) and tied for 10th in single-season runs scored (62)...Career .649 slugging percentage ranks fourth in program history.

2023: Boyd enjoyed one of the most productive offensive seasons in App State history, slashing .364/.399/.712 in 45 games (43 starts) for the Mountaineers...Boyd tied a program record with 17 home runs, blasting 12 homers in his final 16 games of the season...Hit safely in the final 19 games of the season, going 42-for-93 (.452) over that span...Named the Sun Belt Player of the week May 16 after weekend series against Arkansas State where he hit four home runs and went 7-for-14 at the plate with seven runs scored and seven RBIs. Became the first Mountaineer since Wes Hobson (2010) to finish a season with double-digit home runs, doubles and stolen bases...Finished top-10 in the Sun Belt Conference in batting average, slugging, OPS, and home runs.

Prior to App State: Boyd transferred to App State after two years at East Carolina to join forces with his younger brother Carter. Boyd homered against Wichita State for his first collegiate hit in 2021, and went on to play in 34 games across two seasons, including three outings on the mound. Boyd was also an AAC Academic All-American in 2021 with the Pirates. The Lewisville, N.C. native enjoyed a standout career at Reagan High School, where he was an All-Conference selection as a junior, and participated in the 2020 National High School Invitational hosted by USA Baseball. He was ranked as the No. 18 overall prospect in the state of North Carolina by Perfect Game.

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Historical Player Information

  • 10

    2023Junior

    Utility/Right-handed pitcher
    6'1" 187 lbs
    10
  • 10

    2024Senior

    Outfielder
    6'1" 190 lbs
    10