MLB Draft
2025 – Baltimore Orioles, 1st round-C (No. 31 overall)
12th Razorback to be chosen in the first round of the draft … Seventh Razorback hitter to be selected in the first round of the draft, joining OF Kevin McReynolds (No. 6, San Diego Padres, 1981), INF Jeff King (No. 1, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1986), INF Logan Forsythe (No. 23, San Diego Padres, 2008), INF Zack Cox (No. 25, St. Louis Cardinals, 2010), OF Andrew Benintendi (No. 7, Boston Red Sox, 2015) and OF Heston Kjerstad (No. 2, Baltimore Orioles, 2020).
2025 (Junior)
» Golden Spikes Award
» ABCA/Rawlings All-American (First Team)
» Baseball America All-American (Second Team)
» College Baseball Foundation All-American (First Team)
» D1Baseball All-American (Second Team)
» NCBWA All-American (Second Team)
» Perfect Game All-American (First Team)
» Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger Award
» NCBWA District 7 Player of the Year
» ABCA/Rawlings South All-Region Team (First Team)
» SEC Player of the Year
» All-SEC (First Team)
» SEC Player of the Week (Feb. 24 & March 10)
» Perfect Game National Player of the Week (March 11)
» Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger Player Of The Week (March 14)
» Brooks Wallace Award Shortstop of the Week (March 25)
» Fayetteville Regional All-Tournament Team (SS)
» Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
47th winner of the Golden Spikes Award … Became the third Razorback in program history to win the Golden Spikes Award, joining outfielder Andrew Benintendi (2015) and pitcher Kevin Kopps (2021) … First Hawaiian-born player and first player born outside the U.S. mainland to win the Golden Spikes Award … Dick Howser Trophy and Brooks Wallace Award finalist … Consensus All-American … SEC Player of the Year … Became the second Razorback in program history to be named the SEC Player of the Year, joining Benintendi in 2015 … First Team All-SEC honoree … Started all 65 games at shortstop … Slashed .350/.434/.673 with a team-high 21 home runs and 68 RBI … First Razorback to hit 20 home runs in a season since Chad Spanberger in 2017 … Led the team in nearly every major offensive category, including slugging percentage (.673), on-base plus slugging (1.107), hits (93), runs scored (81), doubles (19), triples (2), home runs (21), extra-base hits (42), multi-hit games (30) and total bases (179) … Finished second on the Razorbacks in batting average (.350), RBI (68), multi-RBI games (18), hit-by-pitches (10) and stolen bases (9) … Defensively, posted a .978 fielding percentage with five errors in 229 total chances while helping turn a team-leading 31 double plays … Homered in the same inning as his younger brother, Kuhio, vs. Kansas State (Feb. 22) in the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, before connecting on back-to-back homers at #13 Ole Miss (March 15) … Named SEC Player of the Week (Feb. 24) for first time in his career after powering the Razorback offense through its trip to Globe Life Field … Hit two home runs, first multi-homer game of his career, against Portland (March 7) … Named SEC Player of the Week (March 10) after powering Arkansas to double midweek sweep against ULM (March 4-5) and weekend series sweep against Portland (March 7-9) … Hit a walk-off three-run homer in Arkansas’ run-rule win against South Carolina (March 21) … Homered in Arkansas’ series-opening win at #7 Georgia (April 11) and in the series finale against the Bulldogs (April 13) to force extras … In the NCAA Tournament, slashed .324/.415/.706 with a team-leading eight runs scored, 10 RBI and six extra-base hits, including three homers, in nine games … Swatted a pair of homers against Creighton (May 31) in the NCAA Fayetteville Regional, matching his single-game career high, and finished with a career high-tying five RBI … In the College World Series, hit a two-run shot, his 21st home run of the season, and a triple vs. #13 UCLA (June 17), becoming the first Arkansas shortstop to homer in Omaha.
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, Hawaiʻi … 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 Hawaiʻi 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.).
