2023 Baseball Roster
Faulkner, Jacob
Jersey Number 51
Jacob Faulkner
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 200
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Venice, Fla.
- High School:
- Venice
Bio
Awards:
ABCA/Rawlings East All-Region Second Team (2024)
First Team All-Ivy (2024)
Second-Team All-Ivy (2023)
Ivy League All-Tournament (2024)
2024: Appeared in 20 games on the mound, making two starts … Led the team in ERA (3.14), wins (eight), complete games (one) and saves (four) … Threw more than one inning in all but two of his outings … Earned the save with two scoreless frames at UNC Wilmington (Feb. 24) …Struck out five in four innings to collect the save at Old Dominion (Mar. 12) … Nabbed the win, allowing one hit in four frames at VCU (Mar. 17) … Corralled another wins vs. Cornell (Mar. 22), Yale (Mar. 30) and at Brown (Apr. 7) … Gave up one hit in three innings vs. Penn to get the victory (Apr. 20) … Came back the next day (Apr. 21) against Penn, started and threw six shutout innings … Threw a complete game to knock Columbia out of the Ivy League Tournament (May 18).
2023: Broke the Princeton single-season record for appearances with 26 … Earned three wins and six saves … Struck out 40 in 54 2/3 innings … Allowed two runs in four innings at Georgia to secure the win (Feb. 26) … Gave up no earned runs over four straight appearances (Mar. 3-13) … Earned the save with three scoreless outings vs. Dartmouth (Mar. 26) … No runs allowed at Monmouth (Apr. 12) … Went unscored upon in five consecutive outings (Apr. 16-28) … Pitched 1 1/3 innings for a combined no hitter (Jackson Emus, Justin Kim) at Yale (Apr. 28).
2022: Did not see any action.
Before Princeton:
Venice: Team won back-to-back state titles in 2018 and 2019.
Personal: Son of Heatherly and Jay Faulkner … Has a sister, Tiffany. Uncle, Craig, played baseball for LSU and played professionally for eight years.
ABCA/Rawlings East All-Region Second Team (2024)
First Team All-Ivy (2024)
Second-Team All-Ivy (2023)
Ivy League All-Tournament (2024)
2024: Appeared in 20 games on the mound, making two starts … Led the team in ERA (3.14), wins (eight), complete games (one) and saves (four) … Threw more than one inning in all but two of his outings … Earned the save with two scoreless frames at UNC Wilmington (Feb. 24) …Struck out five in four innings to collect the save at Old Dominion (Mar. 12) … Nabbed the win, allowing one hit in four frames at VCU (Mar. 17) … Corralled another wins vs. Cornell (Mar. 22), Yale (Mar. 30) and at Brown (Apr. 7) … Gave up one hit in three innings vs. Penn to get the victory (Apr. 20) … Came back the next day (Apr. 21) against Penn, started and threw six shutout innings … Threw a complete game to knock Columbia out of the Ivy League Tournament (May 18).
2023: Broke the Princeton single-season record for appearances with 26 … Earned three wins and six saves … Struck out 40 in 54 2/3 innings … Allowed two runs in four innings at Georgia to secure the win (Feb. 26) … Gave up no earned runs over four straight appearances (Mar. 3-13) … Earned the save with three scoreless outings vs. Dartmouth (Mar. 26) … No runs allowed at Monmouth (Apr. 12) … Went unscored upon in five consecutive outings (Apr. 16-28) … Pitched 1 1/3 innings for a combined no hitter (Jackson Emus, Justin Kim) at Yale (Apr. 28).
2022: Did not see any action.
Before Princeton:
Venice: Team won back-to-back state titles in 2018 and 2019.
Personal: Son of Heatherly and Jay Faulkner … Has a sister, Tiffany. Uncle, Craig, played baseball for LSU and played professionally for eight years.
Princeton Athletics 2023-24 Highlights
Tuesday, June 04
Sights and Sounds: 2024 Ivy League Baseball Tournament - Game 3
Monday, May 20
Sights and Sounds: Princeton Baseball Ivy League Tournament win vs. Harvard
Friday, June 02
Highlights from 2022 Gary Walters ’67 PVC Awards Banquet
Wednesday, June 22
