Campbell University

2021 Honors
First-team all-Big South
Big South Championship all-tournament team
NCBWA - Second-team All-America
ABCA/Rawlings - First-team Atlantic all-region
Big South Player of the Week (3/8)
CBN - National Players of the Week (3/8)
 
2021: Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll... Appeared in and started 50 games… Slashed .350/.400/.685 with a team-high 16 home runs… Finished 31st in the nation in home runs… Drove in 65 runs, good for second on the team and in the Big South and 11th nationally… Finished top-5 in the Big South in average, slugging, RBI, hits, and HR...  Hit two grand slams on the same day, each in the first innings of a doubleheader against GWU on 3/6… Went 2-4 with six RBI in game two against GWU on 3/6… Went 5-6 with five runs scored, two HR and seven RBI at Winthrop on 3/6, matching career highs in hits and RBI and setting a career high in runs… Homered twice against PC on 4/25…  Homered in all three games of the Radford series on 5/7-8… Went 3-4 with four runs scored and two doubles against VCU on 6/6 at the Starkville Regional… Scored nine runs and stole three bases at the regional… Stole 11 bases on the season, the fourth most on the team… Led the team with 302 putouts… Tallied 22 multi-hit games and was the only Camel with a five-hit game… 

2020: Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll…Started 15 games for the Camels at first base, designated hitter and left field…Finished the season batting .246 and slugging .426…Tallied three multi-hit games, coming against East Carolina (2/19) Purdue (2/21) and Air Force (3/1)…Finished with a team-high three home runs…Cranked a go-ahead two-run homer against South Alabama (2/15)…Tallied a three-run homer at Furman (3/7)…Had a pair of hits in a win over No. 16 East Carolina (2/19)…Hit safely in each of his final eight games…

2019: Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll... Played in 36 games during his first season with the Fighting Camels, making 23 starts… Made 18 starts at first base, four in right field and one in left field… Hit .214 on the season with 21 hits, 13 of which were extra-base hits… Knocked eight doubles and five home runs… In the ninth inning of CU’s 9-8 walk-off win over Quinnipiac at the NCAA Greenville Regional (6/2), he plated the game-tying run on a pinch-hit RBI double… Went 5-for-6 with a double, a three-run home run, seven RBI and four runs scored in CU’s 21-1 rout of UNC Ashville (3/23)… Hit a solo home run in the bottom of eighth of Campbell’s 20-7 win over Charleston Southern in the Big South Championship quarterfinals (5/23), scoring Campbell’s 20th run... Made his Campbell debut in the season opener against Maryland (2/15), crushing a go-ahead solo home run in the seventh… Picked up his first multi-hit game on ECU (2/20), going 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI… Cranked a three-run home run at Gardner-Webb (4/5)… Ripped a double and later scored the fifth run of Campbell’s five-run fourth inning as Campbell upset No. 17 NC State (5/17) in Raleigh, 5-3…

Lurleen B. Wallace CC (Andalusia Ala.): Batted .340 with 27 home runs, 21 doubles and 101 RBI across two seasons for the Saints of Andalusia, Alabama… Named to the All-Region 22 team and All-South first team... Hit 14 home runs his sophomore season, which ranked fourth in the Alabama Community College Conference… Before attending LBWCC, was a quarterback at Murray State University…

Prep: Two-time all-state honoree at Opelika High School… Named first team all-state as a junior before earning second team honors as a senior… Coached by Billy Jones… Also lettered in football all four years…

Personal: Full name is Matthew Bradley Christian… Born April 4, 1997… Son of Michele and Mark Christian… Has one brother, Micah… Business administration major…