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2026 Baseball Roster

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Kevin Ren

32 Gavin Degnan

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 185
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Lakehurst, N.J.
  • Highschool Donovan Catholic / Rowan College South Jersey-Gloucester

Biography

2025: Made an impact in first season at Penn, playing in 35 games, while making 24 starts in the outfield … Hit .277 with 23 hits—14 of which were extra-base knocks—with four home runs, nine doubles, and a triple. Also drove in 16 runs and walked 11 times … Logged a team-high .554 slugging percentage on the season, the fifth-best in the Ivy League and totaled a .925 OPS ... Was successful on all seven of his stolen base attempts … Also recorded a perfect fielding percentage while committing zero errors defensively, totaling 50 putouts and one assist … Recorded at least one hit in three of first four games on the year, homering against #9 Florida State (2/22) in just his second DI game … Went 2-for-3 with a homer, a double, and three runs scored in a win at Lafayette (3/15) … Had a pair of doubles in five at bats, tallying two RBIs against Harvard (3/23) … Launched third home run against Lafayette (4/1) while batting 2-for-4 with two RBIs … Had another 2-for-4 effort with two RBIs in a victory over Princeton (4/4) … Doubled in back-to-back games at Cornell (4/13, 4/14), also walking three times in the latter contest … Homered and tripled to go 2-for-4 at the dish against Columbia (4/27) … Went 2-for-4 and drove in a run in regular season finale at Brown (5/3).

2024 (at RCSJ): Played a big role in helping the Roadrunners win the NJCAA DIII World Series following a season with a 51-8 record and 31-3 record in conference play … Hit .430 in 57 games, slugging seven home runs with 79 RBIs, totaling 99 hits with 92 runs scored … Earned third-team NJCAA All-America honors and was a first-team All-Region honoree.
 
High School: Letter-winner all four years … Led team to Ocean County Championship in 2023 … Won three division titles from 2021-23 … First-team All-State honoree in 2023 … First-team All-Shore selection in 2022 and 2023 … Earned first-team All-Division honors from 2021-23.
 
Personal: Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 
Why Penn?: “Penn provides me with an opportunity to grow as an athlete, student, and person.”

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 32

    2025Sophomore

    OF
    6'1" 185 lbs
    32
  • 32

    2026Junior

    OF
    6'1" 185 lbs
    32