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2026 Baseball Roster

42 Chase Swain

  • Position Utility
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Elsinboro, NJ
  • Highschool Woodstown

Biography

Prior to La Salle:

Perhaps the most experienced player on the roster, arrives at La Salle to finish an impressive collegiate career by any measure … Initially committed to La Salle and Head Coach Dave Miller in 2020 as a senior at Woodstown High School in New Jersey … Followed Miller to Division III Penn State-Abington in 2022, OPSing 1.108 with a .407 average, nine home runs, 45 RBI, and 18 steals as a freshman … Then followed Miller to Division I Manhattan and continued to tear it up, earning a First Team All-MAAC spot, OPSing 1.039 with five homers, 15 steals, 41 RBI, and a .392 average in 2024 … Transferred to West Virginia for 2025 and continued  to mash in the Big 12 Conference, hitting .319 with a .856 OPS, 30 RBI and 11 steals in 39 starts (50 games played) … Helped lead West Virginia to an NCAA Super Regional.

2025: Playing on a national stage, made an immediate impact as a redshirt junior on a West Virginia team that won 41 games in the first season of a reconfigured Big 12 Conference … Team finished ranked No. 13 in the country … Hit .319 with 30 RBI, two home runs and a team-high three triples … Got on base at a .404 clip contributing to an .856 OPS … Drove in a run against Louisianna State in the first game of the Baton Rouge Super Regional on 6/7 … Posted an eight-game hitting streak from 3/22 to 4/1, featuring hits in three games each against Arizona and BYU … Registered 11 multi-hit games and nine multi-RBI games … Went “viral” with a ninth inning steal of home to send West Virginia to a 5-4 win over Marshall on 4/15 … Went 4-for-5 with two RBI and three runs scored at Queens (NC) on 3/3 … Hit first home run of the season on 2/23 at Lipscomb … Went 6-for-11 with six runs scored in a weekend series at BYU on 3/27-3/29 … Drove in five runs on three hits in the first two games of a series against Houston on 4/11 and 4/12 … Went 2-for-4 with two doubles, three RBI, and two runs scored against Cincinnati on 4/19 … Went 2-for-3 with three RBI against Kansas State on 5/11 … Recorded a base knock in the Big 12 semifinal against Arizona on 5/23.

2024: Posted “video game” numbers at Manhattan as a sophomore in 2024 … Lead team in OPS (1.039), average (.392), slugging (.575), and stolen bases (15) … 60 total hits second only to current La Salle teammate Daniel Perez (61) … Also tied for second on the team in categories of RBI (41) and doubles (nine) … Started 39 of 40 games played … Finished the season on a 16-game hitting streak from 4/21 to 5/17, which saw average rise from an already-strong .307 to a season-ending .392 … Capped off season with homers in both games of a doubleheader against Rider on the season’s final day 5/17 … Notched 20 multi-hit and 12 multi-RBI games … Went 4-for-4 with three RBI at Marist on 4/21 … That Marist game was one of three games with three RBI … Another one coming on 5/3 at Siena, which also included three hits and two stolen bases … Also stole a pair of bags two games earlier against Quinnipiac on 4/28 … Went 3-for-4 with a triple and double and three RBI at Siena on 5/3 … Socked two doubles in a three-hit game at Norfolk State on 2/24.

2023: Sat out the season at Manhattan due to NCAA transfer rules.

2022: Having been committed to La Salle out of high school under Head Coach David Miller, followed Miller to Penn State-Abington when La Salle discontinued the program following the 2021 season … Proved to be one of the best Division III players in the nation, earning a plethora of accolades: United East Conference Rookie of the Year; All-United East First Team; ABCA/Rawlings All-Region 4 First Team; D3Baseball.com Region 4 Rookie of the Year; D3Baseball.com All-Region 4 First Team … Lead Miller’s team to a 33-win season which concluded in the United East Conference Final … Hit .407 with a 1.108 OPS in 199 at bats, starting in all but one of the 44 games played in … Slugged nine home runs and 17 doubles for a .628 slugging percentage … On base in nearly half of all plate appearances at a .480 clip, drawing 23 walks to contribute to 81 hits … Scored 76 runs and drove in 45 … Held hitless in only seven of 44 games played … Posted an 11-game hitting streak from 4/20 to 5/10 … Logged 25 multi-hit, 11 multi-RBI, and 28 multi-run games … Went 3-for-5 with a homer and six RBI against Muhlenberg on 4/13 … Had no issues getting acclimated to college baseball, hitting .479 through first 10 games played … Batting average never dipped below .300 for the season after 2/26, only his third game played.
 

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