#6 Derek Curiel Season 2025

Named the 2025 SEC Preseason Freshman of the Year by D1Baseball.com

Ranked No. 1 on the Perfect Game list of the Top 75 Freshmen for the 2025 season

• Batted .388 with a .522 on-base percentage in LSU’s fall 2024 intra-squad games
• Ranked in 2024 as the No. 10 overall high school player in the country and as the second-best high school player in the state of California by Perfect Game
• Batted .314 with 33 hits – including 10 doubles – 21 RBI and 19 stolen bases in his senior year (2024) at Orange Lutheran High School
• A two-time member of the 18U USA National Team and a four-time High School All-American … named a Perfect Game Player of the Year in 2020 and in 2023

Personal
Full name is Derek Boaz Curiel … born May 24, 2005, in West Covina, Calif. … parents are Rick and Linda Curiel; father is a police officer, mother is a stay-at-home mom … has two siblings, Donovyn and Ysabella.