Kyle Sherman

Kyle Sherman

Class of 2007
Inducted in 2018

Kyle Sherman ’07 earned All-America and Academic All-America® honors in baseball and was a 4-time All-North Coast Athletic Conference selection in both baseball and football.  On the diamond his freshman year, he was an honorable mention All-NCAC pick.  He batted .338 with 3 HR and led the team with 33 RBI.  As a sophomore, he won the starting spot at 2B and went on to first-team All-NCAC honors, batting .389 with 10 HR (tied for third in NCAC) and 32 RBI.  He ranked third in the league in slugging percentage (.763), fourth in runs scored (47), and tied for seventh in stolen bases (10).  His junior year, he batted .392 with 10 HR (second in NCAC) and 54 RBI (shared league lead).  He led the league in runs scored (59) and ranked second in total bases (104) and slugging percentage (.703).  He was a third-team All-America and a first-team all-region and All-NCAC selection.  As a senior, he batted .395 (eighth in NCAC) with 10 HR (tied for league lead) and 40 RBI, also leading the NCAC in total bases (111) and slugging percentage (.755) and sharing the league lead in triples (6, then a school record).  He repeated as a third-team All-America selection and named first-team Academic All-America® and NCAC Player of the Year, also receiving first-team all-region and first-team All-NCAC honors.  During his career, he batted .379 with 33 HR (tied for third all-time) and 159 RBI (fifth all-time) along with 182 runs scored (fourth all-time), 14 triples (OWU record), 374 total bases (fifth all-time) and 46 stolen bases (tied for fifth all-time).  Ohio Wesleyan was 99-59, 46-16 in the NCAC, with one NCAC championship and one NCAA playoff appearance.  A safety on the gridiron, his freshman year, he intercepted 5 passes to rank third in the NCAC.  He won honorable mention All-NCAC status.  As a sophomore, he was named NCAC Player of the Week after intercepting 2 passes and forcing a fumble at the OWU 1-yard line in the fourth quarter at Franklin.  He intercepted 6 passes, tying for the NCAC lead and tying for fourth on the OWU season list, and was a first-team All-NCAC pick.  His junior year, he intercepted 7 passes, leading the league and tying for second on the OWU season list.  He was a third-team all-region pick by D3football.com and a first-team All-NCAC selection.  As a senior, he shared the team lead with 68 tackles and ranked second on the team with 2 interceptions, earning second-team All-NCAC status.  He finished his career with 20 interceptions, setting the OWU career record.