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Jersey Number 39
Maddox Burkitt
- Position:
- RHP
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 200
- 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
- Did not appear in a game
- 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 sport management
Baseball Highlights vs. Sacramento State
Tuesday, March 24
Baseball Highlights vs. Houston
Sunday, March 22
Baseball Highlights vs. Missouri
Wednesday, March 18
Baseball Highlights at Texas Tech
Sunday, March 15
