Read: Stafford native Broadhurst fits in well at Eastern (Journal Inquirer, May 11, 2020)
Enrolled at Eastern in January of 2019 after three semesters at the University of Connecticut, where he maintained four years of baseball eligibility...
2021: Earned second varsity letter… 2nd team ABCA All-America and 1st team D3Baseball.com All-America… ABCA New England Player-of-the-Year… 1st team New England ABCA/Rawlings All-Region… LEC Player-of-the-Year… 1st team All-LEC… ECSU Team Sport Male Athlete-of-the-Year… 2x LEC Player of the Week on April 18th and May 2nd… 2nd team CoSIDA Academic All-America… 1st team CoSIDA Academic All-District… LEC All-Academic… ECSU Outstanding Scholar-Athlete award-winner… started 39/40 games in the cleanup spot and 37/40 as third baseman… led team in batting average (.397), triples (4), slugging percentage (.766), walks (27), and on-base percentage (.514)… tied for team lead in runs scored with 47 and hit-by-pitches with 9… added 11 homeruns and 43 RBIs while tallying 108 total bases … had 19 multi-hit and 11 multi-RBI games…
2019: Earned first varsity letter…Second-Team All LEC…LEC Rookie of the Week on April 7th…appeared in 34 games, 32 as a starter…started 13 games at 1B and 10 games in RF…batted in the No. 3 spot 12 times and No. 2 spot 9 times…batted .319 with 36 hits and 26 RBI…had a .988 fielding average…had 9 multiple hit games and 6 multiple RBI games… with a season high hitting streak of 12, batted .473 (18-38)…in LEC regular season play, appeared in 13 games, 12 as a starter while batting .410 with 16 hits and 14 RBI…in LEC tournament play, appeared and started in all 3 games, batting .182 with 2 hits and 1 RBI…
High School:Â Shortstop who was a four-year baseball starter and who played two seasons of basketball... in baseball, three-time, first-team Class "S" All-State and all-conference... member of conference title team in baseball as a sophomore... two-year conference all-academic... in baseball, set program career record with 118 hits and season record with 29 stolen bases...Â
Other: Four-year member of Tolland Zone 8 American Legion program, helping teams to two zone titles and a state second-place finish...
PERSONAL: Born Luke F. Broadhurst October 23, 1998… Parents: Meg and John… Siblings: Ben and Emma… Major: Sports Management… Career plans: Professional Baseball Player… Residence: Stafford Springs, CT…
LUKE...REVEALED
What's something you're really good at? Making uncontested threes in an empty gym
What are you watching on Netflix these days? Ozark
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Aruba with Coach Cervizzi
Is there any food you don’t eat? Cauliflower
What makes you laugh? When someone farts
What is something that you’ve always wanted to learn? How to surf
What can you do better than anyone else? Flip a pancake
What are you most passionate about? Baseball
Biggest crisis facing the world: people who order grilled chicken sandwiches from Chick Fil A
@JohnMesagno
Where do you go when you have to ‘get away’? The gym
What is something very few people know about you? I still have two baby teeth
Hardest class ever taken: Creative Expressions
Favorite moment of all time: Winning a national championship this year
Most influential person in the world: Larry David
Amount of weekly allowance you would give to your children: Depends if they’re going to the league or not
Your most overused phrase: No doubt
Words to live by: Lift small, bunt the ball
Worst thing about COVID: Not being able to see family
Best thing about COVID: Still being in college as a 23 year old
