Freshman Year - 2014
Sustained a season-ending injury during fall practices and made no appearances in the 2014 campaign…Received a medical redshirt…Academically, Del Valle earned President’s List honors
High School
Played his high school baseball for Coach Mike McDaniel at Saint Cloud High School, pitching and playing shortstop to aid the Bulldogs to a second-place District finish and making it to Regionals as a senior…Led the team in batting average and had his best game on Senior Night, logging a no-hitter with 12 strikeouts…Logged the highest GPA on the team with a weighted 4.35 GPA…Named first team All-Conference as a pitcher…As a junior, he pitched and played middle infield for SCHS, leading the team in batting average (.359) and GPA (4.35 weighted)…Earned first team All-Conference honors, aiding the team to a District Runner-up finish…Played varsity all four years…Finished 11th in his class and was an Honor Society Member
Personal
Abel Alexander Del Valle was born June 25, 1995 in Levitown, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico to Angelica Reyes and Pedro Del Valle…He has three siblings, J.P. (19), Paola (16) and Perla (16)…Outside of baseball, he enjoys video games, running, going to the movies and hanging out with friends…He’s logged nearly 100 recent hours of community service…Chose Bethune-Cookman because he wanted to be a part of the historic baseball program…Notes his best sports memory as throwing a no-hitter on his high school Senior Night…His favorite athlete is Jose Fernandez, because he’s a talented young pitcher and he wants to model himself after Fernandez, especially his breaking ball…Cites his parents as the biggest influence in his life...Majoring in Mathematics at Bethune-Cookman
