William & Mary Athletics

Honors & Awards
2025 Preseason Honorable Mention All-CAA
2025 D1Baseball Preseason Top 150 Starting Pitcher (No. 142)
4x CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll (Fall '23, Spring '24, Fall '24, Spring '25)
At Lynchburg: 
2023 ABCA/Rawlings DIII All-American
2023 DIII World Series Most Outstanding Player
2023 ABCA/Rawlings DIII All-Region First Team
2023 D3baseball.com All-Region
2023 All-ODAC
2022 ODAC All-Tournament Team
2021 ABCA/Rawlings DIII South All-Region
2021 D3baseball.com All-South Region
2021 All-ODAC
2021 ODAC All-Tournament Team

Graduate Student (2025)
Pitched in one game before season ended due to injury.
 
Graduate Student (2024)
Named a top 65 NCAA Division I starting pitcher by D1Baseball... Made 16 appearances and 13 starts... Led the CAA with a 1.79 walks allowed per nine innings, ranked No. 32 in the nation... Posted a 3.84 ERA, ranked eighth in the CAA, and a 1.19 WHIP... Second on the Tribe with 70.1 innings pitched and six wins... Finished third with 61 strikeouts... Had two 7.0-inning outings, each a team high... Earned a save in Tribe debut, fanning three in 3.0 innings against Holy Cross (2/17)... Made back-to-back appearances in combined two-hitters against UMass Lowell and Norfolk State (2/23-27)... Struck out season-high seven in 6.0 innings against Quinnipiac, allowing just one run (3/16)... Surrendered just four hits and one earned run to earn the win in 6.1 innings against NC A&T (4/13)... Earned the win against No. 24 UNCW, striking out six and giving up just one run and five hits over 7.0 innings (4/27).
 
Prior to W&M
Played four years with 2023 DIII National Champion Lynchburg, closing his undergraduate career as one of the program’s best pitchers… Obtained a bachelor’s degree in international relations with a minor in Spanish… Senior (2023): Won the NCAA DIII Championship… Named an ABCA/Rawlings DIII All-American… Earned DIII World Series Most Outstanding Player… Named ABCA/Rawlings First Team All-Region… Led NCAA DIII in victories (13-0) and games stared (17)… Set Lynchburg program record for career wins (29) and single-season wins (13)… Posted a No. 35 nationally-ranked 2.16 ERA over 120.2 innings pitched in 18 appearances… Fanned 99 batters, ranked No. 17 in NCAA DIII… Threw a complete game in the National Championship series opener vs. Johns Hopkins, allowing no earned runs on seven hits with no walks (6/7)… Earned the win in first nine starts… Fanned a career high 10 batters in a complete game shutout vs. Ferrum (4/8)… Junior (2022): Went 8-4 in 15 appearances, making 14 starts… Struck out 63 batters over 73.1 innings of work… Named to ODAC All-Tournament Team… Sophomore (2021): Started eight games and posted a 7-0 record in 80.2 innings… Fanned 73 batters and boasted a 2.45 ERA, which was the second-best ERA in the ODAC… Named All-South Region by ABCA/Rawlings and D3baseball.com… Tabbed All-ODAC and named to the ODAC All-Tournament team… Freshman (2020): Made four appearances in the abbreviated season, including two starts… Totaled five strikeouts in 6.1 innings… Earned his first collegiate win with a scoreless relief inning vs. Averett (3/4).
 
Prep
Three-year letterwinner at Goochland High School… Also played golf in high school… Member of the National Spanish Honor Society.
 
Personal
Born August 21, 2001, to Matthew Potts and Jenifer Strozier in Oilville, Va.… Has two siblings, Jake and Morgan… Member of the National College Athlete Honor Society… Favorite baseball memory is winning the NCAA Division III World Series… Favorite TV Show is “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”… Pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy.