Wehiwa Aloy - Baseball - Arkansas Razorbacks

#9 Wehiwa Aloy

INF | Jr. | 6-2 | 200 | R/R | Wailuku, Hawai'i | H.P. Baldwin HS / Sacramento State

2024 (Sophomore)
» All-SEC (Second Team)
» Brooks Wallace Award Shortstop of the Week (Week 7)
» First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll

All-SEC Second Team honoree at shortstop … Started all 60 games at shortstop, the only Razorback to start every game during the campaign … Slashed .270/.355/.485 with a team-leading 14 home runs and a team-high 56 RBI … Scored a team-leading 45 runs on the year … Totaled 64 base hits, including nine doubles … Recorded 15 multi-hit games and finished tied for the team lead in multi-RBI games with 11 … Logged a season-long hitting streak of 14 games and a team-leading 31-game reached base streak … Finished as the team leader in stolen bases (7-for-7) … Defensively, committed six errors in 161 total chances (.963 fielding percentage) … Assisted in turning 18 double plays … In SEC play, slashed .258/.341/.492 with a team-leading eight home runs and a team-leading 21 RBI over 30 games … Perfect 3-for-3 in stolen base attempts in league action … Made his Razorback debut in the season opener against James Madison (Feb. 16), drawing a walk and scoring a run … Recorded his first hit and first multi-RBI game as a Razorback the following day against James Madison (Feb. 17) … Turned in his first multi-hit game of the season in the third game of the series against James Madison (Feb. 18), collecting his first double of the year in the process … Hit a grand slam, his first home run as a Razorback, against UCA (March 5) … Connected on his first home run of SEC play against Missouri (March 16) … Hit a solo homer in the series opener at No. 23 Auburn (March 21) … Recorded his first three-hit game of the season against in-state foe Little Rock (March 26), hitting his second grand slam of the year in the win … Drew a season-high three walks in the series opener against No. 8 LSU (March 28) … Jacked a solo home run in the finale against No. 8 LSU (March 30), helping the Razorbacks complete a series sweep against the Tigers … Named Brooks Wallace Award Shortstop of the Week for Week 7 as a result of his two-homer, five-RBI week against Little Rock and LSU … Homered in consecutive games against Ole Miss (April 4-5), driving in three runs in the series opener before collecting another three RBI in the second game of the series against the Rebels … Racked up a season-high four hits, including a double, and drove in a season-high five runs vs. UAPB at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock, Ark. … Swatted his third grand slam of the season against Missouri State (April 30) … Went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles against No. 14 Mississippi State (May 11) … Homered in back-to-back games at No. 5 Texas A&M (May 17-18), helping Arkansas clinch the SEC Western Division title for the fifth time in the last six seasons and ninth time in program history … In the NCAA Fayetteville Regional, went 2-for-5 with a double and solo home run in the regional opener vs. SEMO (May 31) … Had two hits and scored a run vs. Kansas State (June 1) … Entering the campaign, named a preseason second-team All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and earned a spot on the preseason watch list for the Golden Spikes Award.

2023 (Freshman at Sacramento State)
» Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American
» D1Baseball Freshman All-American (First Team)
» NCBWA Freshman All-American (First Team)
» Perfect Game Freshman All-American (First Team)
» Baseball America Freshman All-American (Second Team)

» ABCA All-West Region (Second Team)
» WAC Freshman of the Year
» All-WAC (Second Team)

Consensus Freshman All-American … Played in all 56 games with 55 starts as a true freshman … Slashed .376/.427/.662 on the season with 69 runs scored, 88 hits, 15 doubles, five triples, 14 home runs and 46 RBI … Posted a 1.089 OPS for the year … Became the fifth Sacramento State student-athlete to be named the WAC Freshman of the Year, joining Rhys Hoskins (2012), Chris Lewis (2013), Sam Long (2014) and Parker Brahms (2017) … One of nine Hornets to be named to the Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America Team, and the third to earn the same honor from the NCBWA … Became the sixth Hornet to earn all-region honors from the ABCA at the Division I level … Ranked No. 66 in the NCAA in average, No. 41 in hits, No. 32 in hits per game, No. 49 in runs scored, No. 25 in runs per game, No. 49 in total bases, No. 26 in triples, and No. 59 in triples per game … Finished the year ranked among the top 10 in the WAC in batting average (6th), slugging percentage (6th), runs scored (T-2nd), hits (T-3rd), triples (T-2nd), home runs (T-8th), and total bases (4th) … Also stood fourth in the conference in hits per game (1.57), third in runs per game (1.23), and 10th in home runs per game (0.25) … Hit a blistering .415 in conference play (good for fifth in the league) and led the WAC with 56 hits and three triples … Ranked fourth in league games in slugging (.756), second in runs scored (41), tied for seventh in doubles (10), sixth in home runs (10) and second in total bases (102) … Finished with 30 multi-hit games … Set the school record for most home runs by a freshman with his 12th of the year at New Mexico State (April 29) and stands tied for that record with teammate JP Smith … His 69 runs scored ranked second on the program’s single-season list behind only Brandon Marshall’s 70 in 1998 … Was the first Hornet to collect 80 hits in a season since Ian Dawkins (89) in 2018, tying for sixth on the school’s single-season chart … His 14 home runs are also tied for 10th on the single-season list … Collected a hit in his collegiate debut against North Dakota State (Feb. 17) and recorded at least one hit in each of his first 13 games of the season … Slugged his first career home run in the first game of a doubleheader against St. Thomas (Feb. 25) … Had a season-high four hits twice: at Stephen F. Austin (April 1) and at New Mexico State (April 28) … Finished his season on an 11-game hitting streak … Finished without a hit in only seven of his starts on the year and never hit lower than .333 on the year … Scored three runs in a game seven times and drove in multiple runs 13 times … Hit home runs in back-to-back games four times during his outstanding freshman campaign.

High School
Attended H.P. Baldwin High School in Wailuku, Hawai’i … Hit .350 and was an all-state selection for the Bears at shortstop … Helped lead H.P. Baldwin to a league title as a senior … Voted the Maui Interscholastic League Player of the Year by the league’s coaches in 2022.

Personal
Pronunciation: veh-hee-vah uh-loy … Father, Jamie, played baseball at Hawai’i and was taken in the 48th round of the 1999 MLB Draft by the San Francisco Giants … Brother, Kuhio, also plays baseball at Arkansas … One of four native-born Hawaiian student-athletes in Arkansas baseball history, including INF Rick Nomura (2015-16), INF Nolan Souza (2024-pres.) and INF Kuhio Aloy (2025-pres.).