Kyle Roller

Classroom

Roller boasts a 3.23 cumulative GPA in business management. He is a four-time ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll recipient and a three-time member of the Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll.

Character

Roller is the 2010 team co-captain as voted on by the coaches and players. One of just two seniors he decided to return to East Carolina, despite being drafted by the Oakland A's in 2009 and winning the Cape Cod League regular season and post-season MVP, to help the Pirates reach their goal of playing in the College World Series. He has led by example on the field and in the class room since stepping foot on campus in 2007.

Community

Roller Since has been a fixture at several community service events since he stepped on campus. These include the Children's Miracle Network, ALS Walk to help fight Lou Gehrig's Disease, Challenger's League, Little League Day and Dowdy Student Store Holiday Sale.

Competition

Roller has been named a preseason first-team All-American by Collegiate Baseball and second-team preseason All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and Ping!Baseball. He was also named preseason first-team All Conference USA by the league’s head coaches and was ranked as the sixth-best player in college baseball by TheCollegeBaseballBlog. In 2009 Roller was named first-team All-American by ABCA/Rawlings and Ping!Baseball, ABCA/Rawlings NCAA All-Atlantic Region, first-team All Conference USA. Following his selection to the NCAA Greenville Regional All-Tournament Team he was drafted in the 47th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft by the Oakland Athletics. In 2009 Roller started 65 of 66 games as the designated hitter and one at first base. He also set career-highs in average (.336), runs (63), hits (86), doubles (12), home runs (16), RBI (75), walks (32) and hit by pitches (24). He had 24 multi-hit and 21 multi-RBI games.