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Jersey Number 39
Maddox Burkitt
- Position:
- RHP
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 195
- Hometown:
- Lawrence, Kan.
- High School:
- Lawrence Free State HS
- Prev School:
- Johnson County CC
Get to Know Maddox ...
At what age did you start playing baseball and how did you get into baseball?
- 7, when my mom signed me up.
- Electric.
- Basketball, first sport I started watching, and it's the sport that got me into sports in general.
- I like cooking.
- My mom, she worked really hard to give me and my brother what we needed.
- Alex Gordon
NAME & HOMETOWN PRONUNCIATION
JUNIOR – 2025
- Committed in November 2023
JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE – 2023-24
- Spent two years in the Johnson County program
- Earned All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Second Team as a relief pitcher in 2023
- Earned All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Honorable Mention in 2024
- CSC Academic All-District Team in 2024
- Career: 6-3, 4.72 ERA, 68.2 IP, 41 BB, 100 SO, 13.11 SO/9 inn.
- Appeared in 15 games (six starts) in 2024
- Finished the season with a record of 5-3 and a 5.32 ERA in 44.0 IP with 23 walks and 61 strikeouts in 2024
- Posted a 1-0 record with a 3.65 ERA in 24.2 innings pitched as a freshman in 2023
- Recorded 39 strikeouts, earned four saves and opponents hit .245 against him
- Helped Johnson County become conference champions in 2023
HIGH SCHOOL
- Played four years of baseball at Lawrence Free State High School in Lawrence, Kansas
- Ranked the No. 10 right-handed pitcher in the state of Kansas, and the No. 33 overall prospect in the state by Prep Baseball Report in 2022
- Named the Kansas 6A Pitcher of the Year, Sunflower League Pitcher of the Year, and an All-State First Team pitcher and outfielder as a senior in 2022
PERSONAL
- Son of Andrew Burkitt and Erica Dorn
- Has one older brother, Caleb
- Picked Kansas over Illinois-Chicago, UTSA, Florida Atlantic, SIU-Carbondale
- Chose Kansas because, “I was born and raised a Jayhawk in Lawrence.”
- Majoring in liberal arts & sciences
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