Tickets"I hope he hits 75 home runs."
— Jeremy Rauch (@FOX19Jeremy) March 23, 2026
Quinton Coats leads the country in home runs, is on pace to shatter UC's record and could have a top five season in NCAA baseball history.
His career is just taking off...on and off the field.@GoBearcatsBASE @FOX19 @qsc_25 #Bearcats pic.twitter.com/BLM1UrSaVP
2026: Earned All-America honors from ABCA/Rawlings (Third Team), Baseball America (Second Team), College Baseball Foundation (Honorable Mention), D1Baseball (Third Team), NCBWA (Second Team), and Perfect Game (First Team)…NCBWA District 5 Player of the Year…ABCA/Rawlings All-Region (First Team)…Slashed .339/.430/.738 and hit a school-record 28 home runs, breaking the single-season home run record previously held by Mike Spina (2009)…Also set single-season school record with 183 total bases and tied the single-season RBI record (79)…Ended the year ranking in the Top 10 nationally in home runs, RBI, and total bases… Dick Howser Trophy Semifinalist…Earned three Big 12 Player of the Week awards and was placed on Baseball America’s National Team of the Week four times…Four multi-homer games in 2026, including a three-homer game on March 21 vs. Utah that tied the single-game school record…Four games with five or more RBI and 21 multi-hit efforts…Opening Day starter at first base…Hit first home run of the year in game two of the Jacksonville State series (Feb. 14)…First instance of hitting home runs in consecutive games came in the first two home games of the year vs. Bowling Green (Feb. 25) and Austin Peay (Feb. 27)…Homer vs. Austin Peay was a walk-off blast in the 10th inning…Over a five-game span from March 3-8, hit seven home runs and drove in 17 runs…Stretch included two-homer games vs. UC San Diego on March 5 and March 6…Homered in games two and three at BYU (March 13-14)…Went 3-for-5 with a home run and four RBI in the first game of the Baylor series (April 10)…Hit a grand slam against Xavier (April 14), his second of the year…Went 3-for-5 with a home run at Oral Roberts (May 5), his 24th home run of the season that broke the single-season school record…Turned in a 4-for-4 performance with two home runs and six RBI in the first game of the Texas Tech series (May 14)…Homered in the finale game of the regular season vs. Texas Tech (May 15)…Reached base three times in the NCAA Tournament win vs. Louisiana (May 29).
2025: Big 12 All-Freshman Team…Appeared in 34 games, making 27 starts (22 at 1B, 3 at DH, 2 at 3B)…Took over as UC’s primary first baseman ahead of the Oklahoma State series…Hit .330 with five home runs and 13 RBI after regularly joining the starting lineup on April 15…Made his collegiate debut in the season-opening series at Duke, appearing in games two and three (Feb. 15-16)…Went 3-for-5 at UNLV (Feb. 23), making the start at third base and collecting his first collegiate hits…Hit a game-tying, pinch-hit home run in the bottom of the ninth vs. Arizona State (April 13), his first collegiate home run…Tied season high with three hits at Xavier (April 15)…Homered in the series finale vs. Oklahoma State (April 27)…Walked three times at Kansas (May 4)…Homered and drove in three runs in the series opener at TCU (May 9)…Hit a home run vs. Texas Tech in the Big 12 Tournament (May 21)…Homered vs. Wake Forest in the NCAA Tournament (May 31).
High School: Two-time all-state and all-conference honoree…Led team to a state championship as a senior…Named team’s MVP and Rob Jones Scholarship Award winner his senior season…Earned First-team all-state and all-conference honors as a junior in 2023.
Personal: Parents are Scott and Melanie...Has one brother, Wesley.