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Jersey Number 48
Dane Ebel
- Position:
- RHP
- B/T:
- L/R
- Class:
- Junior
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 210
- Hometown:
- VanWert, Ohio
- High School:
- Lincolnview HS
- Prev School:
- Lincoln Trail College
Get to Know Dane ...
At what age did you start playing baseball and how did you get into baseball?- I started playing when I was six. I started playing with my dad and fell in love with the game.
- I need to have music during warm ups.
- Energetic.
- Golf because striping a 4-iron is a great feeling.
- I am a funny guy.
- My dad. He has taught me so much and holds me to a high standard.
- Dansby Swanson.
NAME & HOMETOWN PRONUNCIATION
JUNIOR – 2026
- Committed in October 2024
LINCOLN TRAIL COLLEGE – 2024-25
- Spent two years at Lincoln Trail College
- Went 1-6 with a 6.10 ERA in 38.1 innings pitched, including two complete games, with 22 walks and 53 strikeouts in 12 career appearances (all starts)
- 2025: 1-2, 4.50 ERA, 10.0 IP, 4 BB, 12 SO in three appearances (all starts)
- 2024: 0-4, 6.67 ERA, 28.1 IP, 18 BB, 41 SO in nine appearances (all starts) as a freshman in 2024
HIGH SCHOOL
- Played four years of baseball at Lincolnview High School in Van Wert, Ohio
- Ranked the No. 16 shortstop in the state of Ohio, and the No. 97 overall prospect in the state by Prep Baseball Report in 2023
- All-State Player of the Year in 2023
- Conference Player of the Year in 2023
- All-State Second Team in 2022
- All-State Honorable Mention in 2021
- All-Conference First Team in 2021 and 2022
- Helped Lincolnview become conference champions in 2021, 2022 and 2023, state runner ups in 2021 and 2022 and win the district title in 2021 and 2022
- Also played four years of golf
PERSONAL
- Son of Jeremy and Kim Ebel
- Has one sister, Brianna
- Picked Kansas over Dallas Baptist, FIU and VCU
- Chose Kansas because, “The environment of the school. It is a huge sports school and sports are cared about a lot. I loved campus the second I stepped foot in Lawrence and I knew that I wanted to choose Kansas the moment I got there. I love all of the coaches, they are easy to talk to and have great baseball minds and I have a good relationship with them. Also, the facilities are super nice and the equipment that they have is all top notch."
- Majoring in liberal arts & sciences
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