Rhett Lowder is a junior baseball player representing the Wake Forest Demon Deacons at the 2023 MCWS. No. 1 seeded Wake Forest certainly surprised everyone this season as they made their way to the College World Series, and Rhett played a key part in that.
He was a member of the South Charlotte Panthers club baseball team and ultimately chose Wake Forest over rivals UNC Wilmington, Appalachian State, and Campbell. Rhett Lowder has been named to First Team All-America by the American Baseball Coaches Association, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, Perfect Game, D1Baseball, and the NCBWA, and to Second Team All-America by all of the publications listed above.
Early life
Rhett is from Albemarle, North Carolina, and was born on March 8, 2002. He was the son of Anthony and Annette Lowder. Joseph, his cousin, is a baseball player for Appalachian State. After graduating high school, he joined the Dream on 3 Foundation’s Jr. Dream Team and served as President of the North Stanly Division of the National Art Honor Society.
He was twice named Pitcher of the Year at the high school and conference levels, earning him #491 on the Perfect Game national recruit rankings and #12 on the North Carolina prospect rankings. In his senior year, cut short by injury, he went 2-0 with 27 strikeouts, 1 walk, and no earned runs allowed in 13.2 innings.
Rhett Lowder career
As a junior, Rhett was 9-0 with a .61 ERA, throwing 115 strikeouts on just seven walks in 68.1 innings and throwing two no-hitters. As a sophomore, he had a 9-2 record, 1.03 ERA, 96 strikeouts, and 7 walks in 61 innings.
In four starts for the Strasburg Express of the Valley Baseball League, he hit 27 strikeouts and conceded just five earned runs over 19.0 innings for a 2-0 record. In his freshman year, he made 14 appearances and started 12 times, all at weekends.
Rhett took a 4-2 lead, enough for a draw and his team’s most wins. He had a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 3.55, which was the second-best among freshmen in Deac history, and he knocked out 78 batters. In his debut collegiate appearance, he completed a bullpen performance against Northeastern, knocking out the team.
He finished the regular season seventh in the conference in strikeouts. He scored his nine strikeouts in the opening game of a conference doubleheader at Clemson. Rhett made Demon Deacon history as the first sophomore to win the ACC Pitcher of the Year award. He also became the third player in program history to be unanimously named an All-American.
Rise to Fame
He was selected to the All-ACC First Team and the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region First Team. With an 11-3 record and 99.1 innings pitched, he made Demon Deacon history by being a finalist for the Collegiate Pitcher of the Year Award.
He hit a career-high 105, which ranked 10th in program history, and became only the fifth pitcher in program history and the first since 2002 to win 11 games in a season. The only pitcher in the ACC to place in the top three for wins, strikeouts, earned run average and innings work, he was one of four pitchers in the country with 11 victories in the NCAA tournament.
Lowder competed in the NCAA as one of four pitchers in the country with 11 wins, an ACC record, and finished the regular season as the only ACC pitcher to finish in the top three in wins, strikeouts, ERA, and innings pitched. In the build-up to the NCAA tournament, he also placed in the top 10 in three other categories: walks allowed per nine innings, strikeouts-to-walks ratio, and WHIP.
<td”>Real name
Rhett Lowder Biography | |
|---|---|
| Rhett Hamilton Lowder | |
| birth date | March 8, 2002 |
| Age (as of 2023) | 21 years |
| Place of birth | Albemarle, North Carolina, United States |
| Profession | baseball player |
| University | Wake Forest University |
| Class | Junior |
Physical Statistics | |
| Height | in feet inches – 6 feet 2 inches – in centimeters – 188 cm |
| Weight | in kilograms – 90kg – in pounds – 200 pounds |
| Hair color | Brown |
| eye color | Brown |
Rhett Lowder Family | |
| Father | Anthony Lowder |
| Mother | Annette Lowder |
| Sister | – |
| Brother | – |
relationship status | |
| Marital status | single |
| affair | NO |
| Who is Rhett Lowder’s girlfriend? | none |
Personal life
Rhett Lowder is pretty private about his relationships. As far as we know, he has never been married and is currently single. There is no post on his social media profile that suggests he is in a relationship with anyone.
Rhett Lowder Net Worth
No numbers are known about Rhett Lowder’s net worth. We anticipate his international debuts as a professional baseball player to bring him huge cash.