Completed Event: Women's Soccer versus Drake on August 31, 2025 , Win , 3, to, 1
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Jersey Number 45
Manning West
- Position:
- RHP
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Height:
- 6-6
- Weight:
- 225
- Hometown:
- Winder, Ga.
- High School:
- Apalachee HS
- Prev School:
- Oklahoma State/Walters State CC
Bio
Get to Know Manning ...
At what age did you start playing baseball and how did you get into baseball?
- As long as I can remember. I started by playing wiffle ball in the backyard.
Do you have any pregame superstitions or routines?
- I like to have Chick Fil-A breakfast and an energy drink.
- Football, I played it growing up and I love the intensity.
- My favorite baseball player growing up was Chipper Jones.
NAME & HOMETOWN PRONUNCIATION
SINGLE-GAME CAREER HIGHS
- Innings pitched: 5.2, vs Omaha, Mar 01, 2025
- Walks allowed: 5 [t-17th], vs Milwaukee, Mar 08, 2025
- Strikeouts: 7, at A&M-Corpus Christi, Feb 15, 2025
- Batters faced: 21, vs Omaha, Mar 01, 2025
- Field chances: 1, vs Omaha, Mar 01, 2025
- Putouts: 1, vs Omaha, Mar 01, 2025
- Runners CS: 1, vs Omaha, Mar 01, 2025
REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE – 2025
- No. 48 impact JUCO transfer pitcher for 2025 by D1Baseball
- Committed in July 2024
WALTERS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE – 2024
- Spent one year in the Walters State program
- All-TCCAA First Team in 2024
- 2024: 8-1, 3.64 ERA, 54.1 IP, 26 BB, 66 SO in 14 appearances (13 starts)
- Held opponents to a .211 batting average
- Second on the team in innings pitched (54.1) and strikeouts (66)
OKLAHOMA STATE – 2023
- Spent one year in the Oklahoma State program
- Did not appear in a game and redshirted
HIGH SCHOOL
- Played four years of baseball at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia
- Ranked the No. 10 right-handed pitcher in the state of Georgia, and the No. 18 overall prospect in the state by Prep Baseball Report in 2022
- All-State First Team selection
- Two-time All-Region First Team recipient
- Holds the school record in career ERA (2.41), innings pitched (196), wins (16) and strikeouts (283)
- Owns the single-season school record for strikeouts (122)
- Also played two years of football
PERSONAL
- Son of Matt and Jennifer West
- Has one brother, Maddox, and one sister, Logan
- Picked Kansas over Indiana
- Chose Kansas because, “The opportunity they presented and their ability to make me a better player.”
- Majoring in liberal arts & sciences
Kansas Baseball vs. North Dakota State Postgame Press Conference
Saturday, May 31
Kansas Baseball vs. Creighton Postgame Press Conference
Friday, May 30
Kansas Baseball Game Week Press Conference vs. Creighton
Thursday, May 29
Kansas Baseball Pre-NCAA Media Availability
Tuesday, May 27
