2025 Baseball Roster
Jersey Number 51
Jacob Faulkner
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 215
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Venice, Fla.
- High School:
- Venice
Awards:
ABCA/Rawlings East All-Region Second Team (2024)
First Team All-Ivy (2024, 2025)
Second-Team All-Ivy (2023)
Ivy League All-Tournament (2024)
2025: Led the pitching staff in appearances (19), innings pitched (67.1) and strikeouts (55)...Led qualified pitchers in ERA (4.14) and was second on the team amongst the full staff...Added five starts...Got the save against No. 12 Wake Forest…Tossed back to back hitless outings against VCU (May 8-9)...Struck out six batters in 4.1 innings without allowing a run against Dartmouth (Mar. 22)...Recorded eight strikeouts against Harvard (Apr. 11)...Worked a 3.0 inning save with no earned runs against Cornell (May 3)...Came back the next day and tossed a complete game with eight strikeouts, no walked batters and got the win against Cornell (May 4)
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, 2025)
Second-Team All-Ivy (2023)
Ivy League All-Tournament (2024)
2025: Led the pitching staff in appearances (19), innings pitched (67.1) and strikeouts (55)...Led qualified pitchers in ERA (4.14) and was second on the team amongst the full staff...Added five starts...Got the save against No. 12 Wake Forest…Tossed back to back hitless outings against VCU (May 8-9)...Struck out six batters in 4.1 innings without allowing a run against Dartmouth (Mar. 22)...Recorded eight strikeouts against Harvard (Apr. 11)...Worked a 3.0 inning save with no earned runs against Cornell (May 3)...Came back the next day and tossed a complete game with eight strikeouts, no walked batters and got the win against Cornell (May 4)
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
