Princeton University Athletics
2013 Baseball Roster

Zak Hermans
- Position:
- Right-Handed Pitcher
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 185
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Coppell, Texas
- High School:
- Coppell
At Princeton
2012: Ivy League Pitcher of the Year and First-Team selection … named Ivy Pitcher of the Week twice (Mar. 6 and May 10) … earned College Baseball 360 Primetime Performer of the Week honors (Mar. 6) … started all nine games appeared in … led Tiger rotation with a 6-2 record and 3.00 ERA … pitched a pair of complete games and a shutout … over 63.0 innings on the mound, tallied 60 strikeouts while only giving up 22 walks … made season debut at Florida Atlantic, tallied eight strikeouts and gave up only two hits over 5.0 innings in 11-4 victory (Mar. 2) … tallied six strikeouts and gave up only one run over five innings in 2-1 loss to defending national champion South Carolina (Mar. 9) … over 5.0 innings, tallied five strikeouts in 21-14 victory at Richmond (Mar. 17) … tallied three strikeouts over six innings of work in no decision in game one at Navy (Mar. 25) … threw five strikeouts over 7.2 innings in game two versus Dartmouth (Mar. 31) … tallied six strikeouts and gave up only one run against over 8.1 innings of work in 2-1 victory in game two at Yale (Apr. 7) … in first complete game victory of the season, had seven strikeouts and three runs against in 4-3 victory in game two versus Penn (Apr. 14) … went eight innings and threw six strikeouts, while giving up only two earned runs in 5-2 victory in game two at Columbia (Apr. 20) … pitched best game of career in game two at Cornell, throwing career-high 14 strikeouts in 1-0 complete game shutout victory (Apr. 27).
2011: Anchored the Princeton pitching rotation all season long … won the team's Donovan Award as it's top pitcher … made 11 starts and was 5-2 with a 3.18 ERA in 70.2 innings of work … struck out 55 batters … allowed only an unearned run in four innings in his first start of the season at LSU … allowed a run on nine hits over 7.2 innings for a win at North Carolina A&T … struck out eight over seven innings at Navy … struck out seven and allowed two runs in a win over Brown … pitched a complete-game five-hitter to beat Harvard … got his fourth win of the season against Columbia … went 7.1 innings and allowed two earned runs on eight hits against Cornell … got a tough no decision in Game 2 of the Ivy League Championship Series after allowing one earned on five hits in 7.2 innings … started Princeton NCAA Regional opener at Texas … allowed four runs on four hits in 4.1 innings.
2010: Made nine appearances and eight starts … was 4-3 with a 7.38 ERA … was 4-1 in Ivy League action … first college appearance came in a loss at Elon … pitched six shutout innings at Navy before surrendering three runs in the seventh in a Princeton win … held Dartmouth scoreless over six and struck out six in a shutout win … limited Columbia to a single earned run in seven in a win … allowed four earned runs to defeat Cornell.
At Coppell
Was a first-team all-state pitcher and two-time district Most Valuable Player as a pitcher at Coppell High School ... was 6-1 with a 2.65 earned run average and 95 strikeouts as a senior ... also batted .412 when playing in the field ... fanned 88 with a 9-2 record and a 0.95 ERA a season earlier.
Personal
Son of Bruce and Chris Hermans ... both parents attended Carroll College and are teachers ... has a younger sister Mia ... birthday is June 21.
| Season | ERA | W-L | APP | GS | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H |
R |
ER | BB | SO | 2B |
3B | HR | BF | BAVG | WP | HBP | BK | WHIP |
| 2010 | 7.38 | 4-3 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0/1 | 0 | 46.1 | 65 | 48 | 38 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 228 | .333 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1.92 |
| 2011 | 3.18 | 5-2 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 70.2 | 67 | 35 | 25 | 21 | 55 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 301 | .245 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1.25 |
| 2012 | 3.00 | 6-2 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1/0 | 0 | 63.0 | 57 | 27 | 21 | 22 | 60 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 265 | .241 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1.25 |
| Career | 4.20 | 15-7 | 29 | 28 | 4 | 1/1 | 0 | 180.0 | 189 | 110 | 84 | 67 | 140 | 37 | 5 | 17 | 794 | .268 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 1.42 |
| Career Highs |
|
| Strikeouts |
14 at Cornell (4/27/12) |
| Innings Pitched |
9.0 MR at Cornell (4/27/12) |





