University of South Alabama Athletics

2024 (Junior): Started all 56 games … Recorded 43 hits, with 13 doubles and nine home runs, with 49 runs, 24 RBIs and 56 walks, top 20 nationally … Slashed .218/.409/.421 while also recording a .994 fielding percentage with four outfield assists, including turning two double plays … Had eleven multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games … Two games scoring four runs, against Nicholls State (2/28), and Southern Miss (4/7) … Stole 12 bases, including four games with multiple steals … Had 16 games reaching base on balls, including walking four times against Southern Indiana … Struck the game-tying home run in the ninth inning against UNC-Wilmington … Knocked in the game-tying RBI against ULM in the ninth inning (5/12) … Drafted in the seventh round of the MLB Draft by the Boston Red Sox.

2023 (Sophomore): Named Second Team All-Sun Belt … Started all 54 games … Hit .349, recording 17 doubles, four triples, nine home runs, and 52 RBIs … Team leading 20 multi-hit games … totaled a .460 on base percentage with 10 stolen bases … Led team in multi-RBI games with 12 … Recorded a .978 fielding percentage.

2022 (Freshman):  Started all 54 games in center field ... Batted .279 with eight doubles, four triples, five home runs, 36 RBI, 44 runs scored and 13 stolen bases ... Ranked tied for third in the league in walks (23) in Sun Belt games last year ... Ranked fourth in the SBC in walks (37) in 2022, and tied for fifth in triples (4) in 2022 ... Posted a .993 fielding percentage with one error in 139 total chances ... Recorded 20 multiple-hit and 11 multi-RBI games ... Finished with a career-high four hits at Texas State (May 1).

High School:  Lettered in baseball three years and basketball one year at Auburn HS in Auburn, Ala. ... Also lettered twice in baseball and once in basketball at Northview HS in Dothan, Ala. ... Batted .391 with three home runs and 25 RBIs, while also finishing 5-0 with a 3.00 ERA and 44 strikeouts in 23 1/3 innings pitched ... Named Class 7A first-team all-state by the Alabama Sports Writers Association as a senior in 2021 ... 2021 Opelika-Auburn News Baseball Player of the Year ... Helped AHS capture the 7A state championship in 2021.

Personal:  Full name is William Ruttman Turner ... Born Sept. 18, 2002, in Auburn, Ala. ... The second of three children to Johnny and Kelly Turner ... Uncle, Billy Evans, played football at Auburn and in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles ... Majoring in sport management.