PRONUNCIATION:
2025: Played in 43 games, including 29 starts in first season as a Maverick... Posted .260 batting average, including 27 hits, four doubles and five home runs with 29 runs batted in... Slugged .442 and drew 23 walks... Stole five bases on five attempts... Season high three hits vs Wayne STate (Mar. 12)... Season best five runs batted in vs. Wayne State (Mar. 11)... Season high four runs scored vs. Augustana (May 10)... Helped Mavericks to NSIC Regular Season and Tournament Championships... Recorded two hits vs. Pittsburg State in NCAA Central Region Championship game (May 18).
2023: Played in 29 games in 2023, logging 19 starts on the infield for the Redhawks…Finished the season with a .194 batting average over 67 at-bats…Registered 13 hits, one home run, and drove in nine RBIs…Recorded five walks and had an on-base percentage of .250…Scored 11 runs and stole a base…On the defensive side, Palmer finished with a .932 fielding-percentage.
2022: Logged 48 starts at second base and five at third in his first season with the Redhawks…Hit .212 with 39 runs scored, 38 hits, five doubles, a triple, five home runs and 28 RBI…Stole 7-of-8 bases walked 16 times and was hit by a pitch on six occasions…Started 23 of 24 Ohio Valley Conference games…Had seven two-hit games…Had a hit and a walk in his first career NCAA Division I start at #22 Dallas Baptist (2/18)…Hit his first career home run at Missouri State (3/19)…Hit a three-run home run vs. SIU Edwardsville (3/27)…Ended the year on a five-game hitting streak…Went 2-for-2 with a season-high three runs scored and four RBI, and a triple vs. Valparaiso (3/13)…Hit safely and scored in all three games of the Belmont series (4/29-5/1)…Homered in the first two games of that series, as well…Went 2-for-2 vs. Louisville (6/3) at the NCAA Regional.
Iowa Western: 2021 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I Baseball ABCA/Rawling Gold Glove winner…Played two seasons with the Reivers…Hit .348 with 30 runs scored, 13 doubles, three triples, one home run, 16 walks and 45 RBI in 49 games during the 2021 campaign…Saw action in six games and had two hits in 2020.
High School: Attended Totino-Grace High School in Fridley, Minnesota…Played for the Minnesota Icemen travel team.
Personal: Son of Lisa Simon... Working toward master's degree in Sport Management... Birthday is Sept. 6... Hobbies include golf and fishing.