Campbell University

Career Honors
2022
First-Team All-Big South
Big South All-Tournament Team
Big South Player of the Week (4/4)
2021
First-Team all-Big South
 
2022: Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll… Appeared in 59 games making 57 starts… Slashed .311/.400/.557 in 219 at-bats… Hit 12 home runs, doubled 16 times and drove in 56 runs. Tied for third in the Big South in RBI and was fourth in doubles… Collected eight sac flies on the year, good for sixth in the nation… Had 21 multi-hit games… Supplied a walk-off single to beat Army on 3/5… Went 5-5 at Winthrop on 5/6… Had a season-long 12-game hit streak from 3/27-4/16… Tied for a team-high 16 multi-RBI games… Drove in four runs twice, against USC Upstate and NC A&T… Went 3-5 with two RBI and two runs against Georgia Tech on 6/3… Hit a home run and scored three times against Tennessee on 6/4 at the Knoxville Regional… Named First-Team all-Big South… Earned a spot on the all-Big South Tournament team…

2021: Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll... Appeared in and started 51 games… Slashed .340/.446/.654 with 11 HR and 60 runs scored… One of just 36 players in the country to score 60+ runs… Led the nation in doubles per game at 0.51, and was third in total doubles with 26 on the year… Tied for the conference lead in triples with four… Worked a team-high 34 walks… Went 4-5 with three runs and two RBI against Dayton on 2/28… Went 4-5 with four runs against UNC Asheville on 3/20… Drove in four runs, including a three-run HR at PC on 4/25… Put together a 12-game hit streak from 3/6 to 4/10… Had five-straight multi-hit games from 4/17 to 4/25…  

2020: Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll… Started five games, making six total appearances at both designated hitter and in left field... Registered two hits and scored a run in Campbell’s win at South Alabama (2/15)... Knocked a solo home run against nationally-ranked East Carolina (2/19)… Went 1-for-3 with a run and a walk in a win at Old Dominion (3/11)… Finished the shortened season hitting .200 in 20 plate appearances…

Mesa CC (Mesa, Ariz.): Named a NJCAA Third Team All-American in 2018 after batting .372 with 73 hits as a freshman… A career .339 hitter, adding 143 hits with 82 RBI, 25 doubles, 13 triples and 14 home runs… Earned first team all-conference honors and first team all-region honors in 2018… Helped lead Mesa to a Region I championship and a runner-up finish at the 2019 NJCAA DII World Series… An Academic All-American recipient both years… Was teammates with fellow Camel Marcus Skundrich during the 2018 season… Coached by Tony Cirelli…

Prep: Named first team all-region and first team all-conference as a senior at Arcadia High School in Phoenix, Arizona… Batted .371 his senior season, hitting four home runs... Coached by Troy Gerlarch…

Personal: Full name is Connor Eugene Denning… Born July 18, 1998… Parents are Eugene and Chris Denning… Has a younger sister, Haley, who plays softball at the University of Utah… Business administration major…