2026 Baseball Roster
Roster
Kai Etwaru
- Position:
- Left-Handed Pitcher
- Year:
- Senior
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 190
- Bats / Throws:
- L/L
- Hometown:
- West Palm Beach, Fla.
- High School:
- Palm Beach Central
- Previous School:
- Delaware State
CAREER HONORS
2025 CSC Academic All-District Team
2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23 ASUN Academic Honor Roll
2025 (REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE)
Ross made 15 appearances and 13 starts … Posted a 5-3 record across 66.1 innings pitched with a 5.02 ERA … Tallied 50 strikeouts and walked just 13 batters … Started the second-most games out of all pitchers on the team … Ranked second on the team in wins with five … Ranked third on the team in strikeouts … Notched four strikeouts or more in his first seven appearances … Registered five strikeouts in two games and six strikeouts twice … Went a career-long seven innings twice against Alabama State on March 7 and at Queens on March 21 … Allowed just one earned run and posted a career-high six strikeouts in seven innings against Alabama State on March 7 ... Named to the 2025 CSC Academic All-District Team ... Named to the 2024-25 ASUN Academic Honor Roll.
2024 (REDSHIRT FRESHMAN)
Ross made 11 appearances and five starts … Posted a 5.21 ERA across 19 innings pitched with a 5.21 ERA … Posted nine strikeouts and a .276 opposing batting average … Made his North Florida debut in the season opener against Delaware on Feb. 16, going 3.0 innings while striking out one batter … Struck out three batters at Florida Atlantic on Feb. 28, doing so in two innings of work … Tied a season-long with three innings pitched at UCF on April 16 ... Named to the 2023-24 ASUN Academic Honor Roll.
2023 (FRESHMAN)
Ross did not appear in any games and redshirted ... Named to the 2022-23 ASUN Academic Honor Roll.
HIGH SCHOOL
Ross played at West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Fla. … Was a four-year varsity letterwinner … Helped West Orange to the 2021 metro title and 2022 district crown … All-metro selection in 2021 and 2022 … Spun a 14-strikeout complete game shutout in high school … Turned in dominant ERAs each of his four years, 2.5 ERA - freshman year, 1.02 ERA - sophomore year, 0.64 ERA - junior year, 0.81 ERA - senior year.
PERSONAL
Ross is the son of Shannon and Jonathan Ross … Has one sister, Abby-Carlyle … Mother, Shannon, played collegiate soccer at Flagler … Favorite baseball player is Jacob deGrom … Graduated in the fall 2025 semester with a bachelor’s degree in sport management.
WHY UNF?
“I loved the coaching staff, it has great facilities and I love the Jacksonville area.”
