Bio
ATHLETIC HONORS
• Second-Team All-Sun Belt, 2018
• National Player of the Week, May 14, 2018 (Collegiate Baseball)
AT GEORGIA STATE: Big, right-handed power hitter who made an immediate impact as a designated hitter ... Added more than 20 pounds during his freshman year.
2018: Earned second-team All-Sun Belt Conference honors as a designated hitter ... Hit seven homers, seven doubles and 19 RBI in 39 games ... Most home runs by a GSU freshman since Jay Langston hit seven in 1997; third most ever by a Panther freshman ... Hit .241 for the season but finished with a nine-game hitting streak during which he hit .313 with five homers and seven RBI.
Named National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball newspaper on May 14 after a week in which he homered in three straight games and then had a walk-off single ... Started with a solo homer, his fifth of the season, in 7-4 win at Kennesaw State (5-8-18) .... In Friday night win over App State (5-11-18), hit a two-run homer in the seventh to put GSU up 4-0 and send the Panthers to a 4-2 win ... Followed with another solo homer in one-run loss to App State (5-12-18), and the delivered the walk-off in Sunday’s rubber game. After Nick Gatewood was intentionally walked to load the bases with one out in the bottom of the ninth of a tie game, he hit the first pitch through the left side for the 3-2 victory.
Made a splash in his debut as he hit a two-run homer in his first collegiate at-bat and drove in all three runs in the Panthers’ 3-1 Opening Day victory over Bradley ... Had another RBI vs. Minnesota (2-19-18) ... Drove in GSU’s first run at Auburn (2-20-18) with a double in the first inning ... Had four hits in the Jacksonville series ... Hit his second homer vs. Morehouse ... Hit a .400-foot, two-run homer and also had an RBI-single at Furman (4-4-18) ... Had four hits and two RBI in sweep of Arkansas State ... Hit his fourth homer vs. Louisiana (4-29-18).
HIGH SCHOOL: 2017 Rawlings-Perfect Game Honorable Mention All-American and Southeast All-Region second team ... Perfect Game Underclass All-American in 2016 (third team) and 2015 (honorable mention) ... Hit .461 as a senior at Woodward Academy with 12 homers and 49 RBI.
PERSONAL: Full name is Ryan Bentley Glass ... Born June 21, 1999 ... Parents are Rodney Glass and Tina Lucas-Glass.
