Keaveney named top NH player
- Updated: June 3, 2024
CHICAGO — Exeter High School left-handed pitcher/outfielder Cam Keaveney was named New Hampshire’s Gatorade Player of the Year for baseball Monday.
The award, which celebrates the nation’s top high school athletes for excellence on the field, in the classroom and in the community, distinguishes Keaveney as New Hampshire’s best high school baseball player.
At the time of his selection, Keaveney had led the Blue Hawks to an 18-1 record and the No. 2 seed for the NHIAA Division I state tournament this season. Compiling a 4-0 record on the mound with a 1.17 ERA, Keaveney recorded 49 strikeouts and held opponents to a .155 batting average during the regular season. He surrendered 16 hits in 30 innings pitched. As a hitter, he produced a .471 on-base percentage, swiped six bases and scored 17 runs.
Keaveney, who has played American Legion Baseball for Exeter’s Post 32 each of the last three summers, also earned the win when Exeter beat Spaulding 7-2 in the opening round of the Division I tournament.
A two-time First Team All-State selection, Keaveney was also the New Hampshire Division I Boys Hockey Player of the Year — the first player in Exeter history to win the award.
Keaveney has volunteered locally as both a youth hockey and baseball instructor. “He certainly shines on the mound,” Exeter coach Bruce Joyce said. “He can absolutely dominate when he’s on, which is often the case. He’s had a really strong senior year and has a good body of work over his three-year varsity career.”
Keaveney has maintained a 4.2 weighted GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball on scholarship at Northeastern University this fall.
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year selection committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others as sources to help evaluate and
determine the state winners in each sport.
Keaveney joins recent Gatorade New Hampshire Baseball Players of the Year Aiden O’Connell (2022-23, Bedford High School), Joe Allen (2021-22, Winnacunnet High School), Cam MacDonald (2020-21, Winnacunnet High
School) and Connor Hujsak (2019-20, Goffstown High School), among the state’s list of former award winners.
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