Good morning. The track team continues to compete in the NCAA East Regionals. Be sure to check Monday’s Brew for all of the updates.

What else are we mixing into today's Brew?

⚾️ Parker Byrd earns award
⚾️ Pirates fall to Wichita State
​🏴‍☠️ And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Winner Winner. The National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals named Parker Byrd the recipient of the 2024 Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award. The award honors student-athletes who have overcome great personal, academic, and/or emotional odds to achieve academic success while participating in intercollegiate athletics. Byrd went through a life altering boating accident that lead to his right leg being amputated.

⚾️ Read more about his story and the award here.

🔼 First Fall. The baseball team lost its first game of the American Athletic Conference Tournament against Wichita State 14-4. The Pirates weren’t able to stop the Shockers as they scored 11 runs over the sixth and seventh innings. ECU will face off with No. 8 seed Rice in an elimination game today at 1 p.m. ET.

⚾️ Here’s how the game went down.

🤔 PIRATES TRIVIA

True or False.

Parker Byrd is the first NCAA Division I baseball player to play with a prosthetic leg.

Scroll down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

For more information on how you can support ECU Student Athletes through Team Boneyard, please email Doug Gomes at [email protected] or visit the Team Boneyard website.

⏪ ICYMI

We like our Brew Hot ‘n’ Fresh. But we’re not opposed to you reheating your cup. Here’s some news you may have missed recently…

🏴‍☠️ Pitchers. The American Athletic Conference named pitchers Trey Yesavage and Wyatt Lunsford-Shenkman to the All-Conference First Team. Yesavage has thrown 86 innings this season. Lunsford-Shenkman has thrown 45 innings.

⚾️ Yesavage’s stats.
⚾️ Lunsford-Shenkman’s stats.

🏴‍☠️ Fielders. The American Athletic Conference named catcher Justin Wilcoxen, outfielder/first baseman Carter Cunningham, outfielder Jacob Jenkins-Cowart and outfielder Ryley Johnson to the All-Conference First Team. See all of their stats so far this season below.

⚾️ Wilcoxen’s stats.
⚾️ Cunningham’s stats.
⚾️ Jenkins-Cowart’s stats.
⚾️ Johnson’s stats.

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📅 COMING SOON

Friday 5/24

⚾️ Baseball AAC Championship vs. Rice @ 1pm ET
👟 Track and Field NCAA East First Round

Saturday 5/25

⚾️ Baseball AAC Championship vs. TBA @ TBA
👟 Track and Field NCAA East First Round

Sunday 5/26

⚾️ Baseball AAC Championship vs. TBA @ TBA

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: True!

🏴‍☠️ Have a great Friday, y’all!