2024 Baseball Roster
Jersey Number 2
Brody Harding
- Position:
- INF
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 180
- Hometown:
- Moline, Ill.
- High School:
- Moline
 University of Illinois Graduate |
 2024 All-Big Ten Second Team |
Career Highs
- Hits: 4, 2x, last: at Purdue, May 18, 2024
- Doubles: 3, at Purdue, May 18, 2024
- Triples: --
- Home runs: 2, vs. Penn State, March 30, 2024
- Total bases: 8, vs. Penn State, March 30, 2024
- RBI: 5, vs. Ohio State, May 5, 2024
- Runs scored: 3, 3x, last: vs. Ohio State, May 3, 2024
- Walks: 3, 3x, last: vs. Youngstown State, Feb. 18, 2023
- Hit by pitch: 1, 15x, last: vs. Northwestern, April 21, 2024
- Sac fly: 1, 3x, last: vs. Michigan State, May 5, 2023
- Sac bunts: 2, 2x, last: vs. Fordham, Feb. 18, 2024
- At bats: 6, 3x, last: at Purdue, May 18, 2024
- Stolen bases: 2, vs. UT Martin, May 18, 2023
- Field chances: 9, 3x, last: vs. Northwestern, April 21, 2024
- Putouts: 6, vs. Ohio State, March 5, 2021
- Assists: 6, 2x, last: vs. Indiana, April 15, 2023
Redshirt Senior - 2024
- All-Big Ten Second Team.
- Academic All-Big Ten.
- Started all 56 games for the Illini...slashed .316/.394/.512.
- Set career-high marks in nearly every offensive category...runs (45), hits (66), doubles (11), home runs (10), RBI (40), slugging (.512) and OPS (.906).
- Slugged a career-high 10 home runs on the season...entered the 2024 season with just three home runs in his first 412 at-bats.
- Had first-career two-home run game on March 30 in the first game of the doubleheader vs. Penn State...second home run gave the Illini a 17-6 run-rule walk-off win in eight innings.
- Hit a grand slam on April 5 at Minnesota.
- Went 8-for-11 (.727) with five runs scored, a double, home run and seven RBI during the Illini's three-game series vs. Ohio State from May 3-5...had multi-hit performances in all three games...career-high five RBI on May 5 in the series finale.
- Tallied the second four-hit game of his career on May 18 at Purdue...had career-high three doubles.
Redshirt Junior - 2023
- Slashed .273/.394/.371/.765 in 50 games, 43 starts.
- Had eight doubles, two home runs and 21 RBI.
- Ranked fifth on the team with 24 walks.
- Committed just two errors in 193 total chances in the field.
- Set season-high hit mark on March 5 at Sam Houston...matched on March 26 at Nebraska and on April 2 vs. Michigan.
- Season-high six-game hitting streak from March 25 - April 4.
- Set a career-high with four RBI on April 2 vs. Michigan.
- Slugged his first home run of the season on April 2 vs. Michigan.
REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE - 2022
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Slashed .253/.393/.347/.740 with 10 doubles, two home runs and 14 RBI in 52 games
- Drew a team-high 36 walks
- Posted a career-high four hits on March 11 at Western Kentucky
Freshman - 2021
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Played in 22 games with 17 starts at second base in 2021
- .204/.368/.315, 3 2B, 12 BB
- Ended the season with a career-high 11-game on-base streak
- Hit his first career home run at Rutgers 5/29/21
Freshman - 2020 (COVID-19 Shortened)
- Started all 13 games at second base
- Team-best eight walks
- One error in 61 chances
- Assisted on three double plays in a 4-2 win over No. 23 Oklahoma State 2/29/20
- No. 19 impact freshman in the Big Ten by D1Baseball
High School
- No. 2 shortstop in Illinois by Prep Baseball Report
- No. 51 shortstop in the nation by Prep Baseball Report
- No. 9 recruit in Illinois by Prep Baseball Report and No. 18 by Perfect Game
- No. 322 recruit in the nation by Prep Baseball Report and No. 453 by Perfect Game
- Four-year letterwinner
- Played for head coach Craig Schimmel at Moline
- Two-time all-conference
- Two-time All-Metro
- 2018 WWBA World Championship All-Tournament Team
- 2018 WWBA Kernels Foundation Championship All-Tournament Team
- 2017 WWBA Midwest Underclass Qualifier All-Tournament Team
- 2017 WWBA 16u Underclass National Championship All-Tournament Team
- 2016 WWBA 15u Underclass National Championship All-Tournament Team
- Honor Roll
- Student Council
- National Honor Society
- Also played basketball at Moline, leading the team to the Sweet 16 as a junior
- All-conference in basketball
- Played with fellow Illini signees Grant Leader and Andrew Pogue for the Reds Scout Team
- Played with fellow Illini Cam McDonald on the Quad City Hitmen summer team
- Chose Illinois over Iowa, Minnesota, UCF, Pepperdine, TCU, and New Mexico State
Personal
- Born Jan. 1, 2001
- Son of Scott and Shannon Harding
- Father, Scott, played baseball at St. Ambrose
- Mother, Shannon, played basketball at St. Ambrose
- Uncle, Quinn Murphy, played in the Cleveland Indians organization
- Uncle, Dustin Murphy, played baseball at North Carolina State
- One younger brother, Brock
- Plans to major in business
- Chose Illinois because, "The coaching staff is amazing and the campus felt like home from the first time I visited."
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