Honors: 2018 - D3baseball.com All-America recipient (first in program history) making Third Team … D3baseball.com All-Region First Team honors … ABCA Second Team All-Region honors … MAC Commonwealth Player of the Year … MAC Commonwealth Championship Tournament MVP … All-ECAC Second Team … MAC Commonwealth Player of the Week honors (3/12, 4/9, 5/9) … Spring Academic All-MAC Team honors … Spring MAC Honor Roll … ECAC Academic Honor Roll ... 2017 - First-Team ECAC All-Region selection … Second-Team All-Region selection by the American Baseball Coaches Association and D3Baseball.com … First-Team All-MAC Commonwealth
2018: Holds single season records for most runs scored (65), most hits (80), and most total bases (114)… Started all 47 games played during the season… Recorded a .415 batting average with 80 hits, 13 doubles, six triples, and three home runs with 36 RBIs and 65 runs scored… Held a .591 slugging percentage and a .504 on base percentage… Registered 128 putouts from the outfield… Went 3-for-4 with a triple, an RBI, and two runs scored against Elizabethtown (2/26)… Was 2-for-3 with two triples and two runs scored against Lebanon Valley (3/18)… Registered three hits in four plate appearances with a triple, two RBIs, and one run scored against Widener (3/28)… Went 2-for-2 with two runs scored against Alvernia (4/6)… Was a perfect 5-for-5 with a home run, five RBIs, and five runs scored at Alvernia (4/7)… Was 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs and one run scored against Susquehanna (4/11)…Recorded three hits in five plate appearances with a double, four RBIs, two runs scored against Hood (4/21)…Was 4-for-5 at the plate with a double, a triple, an RBI, and two runs scored against Stevenson (4/27)… Registered four hits in five at bats with a double, two RBIs, and four runs scored against Hood in the MAC Commonwealth Championship Tournament (5/5)… Went 2-for-5 with a double, three RBIs, and two runs scored against Catholic in NCAA Regionals (5/18).
2017: Started in all 45 games in right field…
Registered program-record totals of 69 hits and 94 total bases… Batted .411 with 44 runs scored, 12 doubles, 25 RBI and a .500 on-base percentage… Had a season-best 15-game hitting streak that started with a 1 for 3 showing in a 7-5 game-one win over Hood (4/1) and ended after going 3 for 4 with two doubles, two runs scored and one driven in an 8-1 game-one win at Messiah (4/23)… Recorded 24 multi-hit games… Went a perfect 5 for 5 at the dish with three doubles, one home run, five runs scored and two RBI in a 16-7 win at Stevenson (3/24)… Was 6 for 13 with three runs scored as the Knights went 3-0 in the conference tournament to win their first-ever MAC Commonwealth title… Was 2 for 6 with a double in a 4-3 extra-inning win over Worcester State in the first round of the NCAA New England Regional (5/18).
2016: Started in 31 of his 33 games played in the outfield as a freshman… Batted .305 with 36 hits, a team-best 12 doubles, three triples, 27 runs scored, 15 RBI and a team-best seven steals… Was 1-4 with a triple, and RBI and a run scored in a game-one win at Immaculata (2/20)) in his collegiate debut… went 2-5 with a triple and scored twice in game-one at Salisbury (2/27)… Was 3-5 with two doubles, three runs scored and two RBI in a win over Susquehanna (3/6)… Went 2-5 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored against Kean (3/11)… Was 2-2 with a solo homer and two runs scored in a win over SUNY Canton (3/11)… Was 3-7 with three doubles, an RBI and two runs scored in a series sweep of Hood (3/18-19)… Went 2-4 with a double and a run scored in a win over Widener (3/24)… Scored twice in a game-three win over Messiah (4/5)… Was 4-9 with two doubles, five runs scored and four RBI in a 2-1 series win over Stevenson (4/15-16)… Went 4-5 with a double and an RBI in a win over Lebanon Valley (4/22).
High School: 2015 graduate of South Plainfield High School…Played baseball for Anthony Guida…Member of a Group 3 Championship Team…Received Honorable Mention to the All-State Team…All-Group 3 First-Team selection…Received First-Team All-Conference and All-Division laurels…Named Team Offensive Player of the Year in a season in which he batted .484 with a .570 on-base percentage.
Personal: Son of Barbera and Michael Gillen… Has one brother, Jeffrey, who attends Rutgers University.
