Cooper Wetherbee

Height:
6-2
Weight:
190
Position:
LHP
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Piedmont, Calif.
High School:
Piedmont

2017: Improved his ERA from 8.89 in 2016 to 3.17 in 2017...Raised innings pitched total from 28.1 in 2016 to 71.0 in 2017...Posted four quality starts from March 29 to the end of the season...Sent Northwestern to its first Big Ten Conference Tournament Championship in 33 years by striking out nine (tied career-high) Maryland (May 27) batters on just three days’ rest ...Big Ten Conference All-Tournament Team... Struck out nine Rutgers’ (May 18) batters in his final start at Miller Park…Tied for second on the team with four wins: Chicago State (March 29), at Purdue (May 5), Rutgers (May 18) and Maryland (May 27) … Led the team in strikeouts with 58 … Academic All-Big Ten…Received Big Ten Conference Postgraduate Scholarship Award

2016: Made 17 appearances and started four games in his first season on the varsity club, pitching 28.1 innings ... Recorded 13 strikeouts ... Made his collegiate debut in relief against Nevada (2/20) ... Made his first collegiate start against Pacific and recorded two strikeouts (2/28) ... Pitched an inning of scoreless relief with one strikeout at Chicago State (4/19) ... Threw 1.1 perfect innings with two strikeouts at UIC (5/4) ... Threw an inning of scoreless relief at Rutgers (5/21).

High School: Earned 2 varsity letters... Had a 0.91 ERA with 68 K and 1.03 WHIP in 39 IP his senior year... Named 2nd team all-WACC pitcher... Member of the 2013 Wacc Shoreline Division Champion team... Graduated Salutatorian... National Merit Scholar... Attended the same high school as UCLA quarterback Drew Olson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

Personal: Born Cooper James Wetherbee on 12/02/95... Son of Tom Wetherbee and Lisa Joyce... Father attended Northwestern... Played trumpet in the NU Marching Band and was a member of the University's club baseball team for two years before walking on to baseball... Double majoring in Economics and Environmental Science.