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Nolan Souza Season 2025-26

PosINF
Wt215 lbs
Ht6-3
YrJr.
HometownHonolulu, Hawai'i
B/TL/R
2025 (Sophomore)
» Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll

Played in 32 games with 28 starts (all at second base) before suffering a season-ending injury … Slashed .250/.374/.427 with four home runs and 22 RBI … Scored 24 runs on the year … Totaled 24 hits, including five doubles … Drew 19 walks … 9-for-9 on stolen base attempts, finishing second on the team in stolen bases … Recorded five multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games … Had a season-long five-game hitting streak and seven-game reached base streak … Defensively, committed only two errors in 86 total chances (.977 fielding percentage) and assisted in turning 13 double plays … In SEC play, slashed .262/.404/.405 with one home run and nine RBI in 13 games with 12 starts … Earned the Opening Day start at second base in game one of the doubleheader against Washington State (Feb. 14), collecting a hit and stolen base … Went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and a double against ULM (March 4) … Swatted his first home run of the season against ULM (March 5), finishing with a season-high three RBI, two walks and a stolen base … Homered in the series opener against Portland (March 7) … Scored a pair of runs, collected an RBI and stole a base in the second game of the series against Portland (March 8) … Hit his first home run of SEC play at #13 Ole Miss (March 15) … Matched his season high in RBI with three against Oral Roberts (March 19), hitting his fourth homer of the season, scoring a season-high three runs, drawing a pair of walks and stealing a base … Drew a season-high three walks against South Carolina (March 23) … Racked up a season-high three base knocks against Missouri State (March 25), finishing 3-for-5 with double and two RBI … Two RBI, two walks and a stolen base in the series opener at #14 Vanderbilt (March 28) … Went 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI in the series finale at #14 Vanderbilt (March 30) to help Arkansas finish off the sweep … Matched his season high with three RBI against Missouri (April 5), also scoring two runs, drawing two walks and stealing one base … 2-for-3 with two runs scored in game one of the doubleheader against Missouri (April 6) … Swiped a season-high three bases against Arkansas State (April 8), finishing 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI … Doubled at #7 Georgia (April 11) before suffering a season-ending injury.

2024 (Freshman)
» Freshman All-SEC Team
» SEC Freshman of the Week (Week 8)
» First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll


Freshman All-SEC Team honoree ... Played in 40 games with 31 starts (17 as designated hitter, eight at second base, six at third base) as a true freshman ... Slashed .255/.366/.509 with seven home runs and 28 RBI ... Scored 21 runs on the year ... Totaled 28 hits, including seven doubles ... Drew 18 walks ... 2-for-2 on stolen base attempts ... Recorded seven multi-hit games, including three three-hit performances, and nine multi-RBI games ... Had a season-long six-game hitting streak and 11-game reached base streak ... Defensively, posted a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 25 total chances ... In SEC play, hit four home runs and had eight RBI in 22 games with 16 starts ... Made his first collegiate start at second base against James Madison (Feb. 18), collecting his first career hit on a double ... Connected on his first collegiate home run against Murray State (March 3), finishing the game 2-for-4 with a solo home run and three RBI ... Tallied a career-high three hits in the second game of a doubleheader against McNeese (March 9) ... Made his first SEC start in the series opener against Missouri (March 15) and logged his first career multi-homer game, matching his season high with three hits, including a pair of homers, and three RBI ... Swatted his first career grand slam in a midweek start against Arkansas State (April 2), also collecting a double as part of a two-hit, four-RBI effort ... Teed off against Ole Miss (April 6) in the series finale with his second multi-homer game of the year to power Arkansas to its first weekend series sweep of Ole Miss since 2002 and its first of the Rebels in Fayetteville since 1997 ... Clobbered two home runs, including a solo homer and a three-run shot, and finished with a career-high five RBI against the Rebels ... For his efforts, named the SEC Freshman of the Week for Week 8 after slashing a team-leading .571/.571/1.286 with a team-high three homers and a team-best nine RBI during the Razorbacks’ undefeated week against Arkansas State and Ole Miss ... Drew a season-high three walks in a two-RBI performance against San Jose State (April 9) ... Hit a solo home run, his seventh and final round tripper of the season, in a midweek start against Texas Tech (April 17) ... Had a double and two RBI against UAPB (April 23) in North Little Rock, Ark., at Dickey-Stephens Park ... Started as designated hitter in the series finale against Florida (April 27) and finished with two hits, his seventh and final multi-hit game of the season ... Drove in a pair of runs against Missouri State (May 1), his ninth and final multi-RBI game of the year ... In the NCAA Fayetteville Regional, appeared as a pinch hitter against SEMO (June 2).

High School
Attended Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawai’i … Also played for the Hawai’i Tigers, where he was coached by former Razorback infielder Rick Nomura  … Ranked by Perfect Game as the No. 56 overall prospect and the No. 19 shortstop in the class of 2023 … Rated the No. 1 overall prospect and the No. 1 shortstop in Hawai’i by Perfect Game … Ranked by Prep Baseball Report as the No. 75 overall prospect and the No. 19 shortstop in the class of 2023 … Ranked by Baseball America as the No. 42 high school draft prospect … 2023 Perfect Game Preseason All-American – All-Region First Team (West) … 2022 Baseball Factory All-American Game participant … 2022 Area Code Games participant … 2022 Perfect Game Preseason Underclass All-American – All-Region First Team (West) … 2021 Perfect Game Preseason Underclass All-American – All-Region First Team (West).

Personal
One of five native-born Hawaiian student-athletes in Arkansas baseball history, including RHP Will Morris (1972-73), INF Rick Nomura (2015-16), INF Wehiwa Aloy (2024-25) and OF Kuhio Aloy (2025-pres.).

Nolan Souza

So.
2024-25

INF
6-3 / 215 lbs
Nolan Souza

Fr.
2023-24

INF
6-3 / 220 lbs