Luke Kovach

Height:
6-1
Weight:
170
Class:
Redshirt Junior
Hometown:
Lompoc, CA
High School:
Cabrillo HS (Allan Hancock College)

2024 — Redshirt … rehabilitation from Tommy John surgery (Dec. 6, 2023) … likely will not play in 2025 due to injury … did not play summer ball.

Allan Hancock College — Under head coach Chris Stevens at Hancock College in Santa Maria, led Bulldogs to 27-15 overall mark in 2023 … Kovach was 1-0 with a 4.91 ERA and 48 strikeouts over 29 1/3 innings in nine mound appearances (six starts) … as a freshman in 2022, Kovach was 2-2 with six saves and a 3.20 ERA as a freshman … made 16 appearances on the mound with three starts … struck out 63 batters over 45 innings and opponents hit .179 against the southpaw … earned first-team All-Western State Conference North Division honors as a reliever … Bulldogs were 21-19 in 2022 … pitched in summer ball for Corvallis Knights in West Coast League … no decisions and a 1.35 ERA, striking out 18 over 13 1/3 innings.

High School — A 2021 graduate of Cabrillo High School in Vandenberg Village, just outside Lompoc … pitched 30 innings and posted a 2-5 record and 5.48 ERA as a sophomore in 2019 … scheduled to be the No. 1 starter as a junior, Kovach’s season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic … played for the Monarchs Baseball South travel team in 2021 … “I attended the youth camps and baseball games at Cal Poly while growing up and it has always been a dream school of mine ever since … the school is close to home, so I will have the chance to play in front of my home crowd … I’m also super excited about the fact that my whole family is going to have the opportunity to still watch me play for another two years.”

Personal — Majoring in sociology.