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Rodney Ehrhard
Rodney Ehrhard
  • Induction Year:
    2016
  • Induction Type:
    Baseball
  • Graduation Year:
    1987

Bio

Played baseball for the Spartans from 1986-87. He was a 1986 first-team All-American and a member of the 1986 NCAA Division II Championships all-tournament team. He was the first Spartan to be named to the championship series all-tournament team. The 1986 first-team all-South Region and 1987 second-team choice was the 1987 NCAA South Regional MVP and member of the all-tourney team in 1986 and 1987. He was honored as a first-team all-SSC selection in 1986. He went on to play minor league baseball in the New York Yankees organization. Among UT single-season leaders, he ranks eighth with a .717 slugging percentage in 1986, fifth with 96 hits in 1986, seventh with 18 home runs in 1986, sixth with 172 total bases in 1986, seventh with 50 walks in 1987 and fourth with 34 stolen bases in 1986. He also ranks fifth in UT history with a .662 career slugging percentage, seventh with a .467 on-base percentage, first with a .963 stolen base percentage and eighth with 30 home runs.