Nic DeLuca
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- Sport(s):
- Baseball
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- Years Played:
- 1993-95
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- Year Inducted:
- 2016
Nic DeLuca played baseball at Bellevue from 1994-95 for head coach Mike Evans.
Following his career at Bellevue, DeLuca received a teacher's endorsement from Peru State College and a master's degree from the University of Phoenix.
In two years of playing for the Bruins, he led Bellevue to a 105-24 record, including BU's lone National Championship in 1995. He was named the Conference Player of the Year in 1994 and was the 1995 NAIA World Series MVP and a member of the NAIA World Series all-tournament team. Following his Bruin career, he was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1995 Major League Baseball draft.
He currently resides in West Jordan, Utah, with his girlfriend, Jill, her son Trayce, and his daughter, Emery. He is the president of RizeUp Today crowd funding company that helps people and businesses fund projects that will help them start their business, pay for school, get an expensive surgery, pay legal fees, pay for vacations, or to do something that they have never experienced before.
DeLuca is also an owner and head coach of the Phenom Baseball organization. Phenom is a mentoring program, for boys ages 8-18, wanting to learn, progress, succeed, and excel in baseball as well as develop skills for success in their future. It also helps them get recognition for college recruitment.
- 1995 NAIA World Series MVP
- 1995 World Series Stats: Batting Average .455, 4 Doubles, 4 Home Runs, 9 RBIs, 1.182 Slugging Percentage, .458 On-Base-Percentage
- 1995 first team all-MCAC
- 1995 Season Stats: .358 Batting Average, 16 Doubles, 12 Home Runs, 56 RBIs, 18 Stolen Bases, .628 Slugging Percentage, 44 Runs, .482 On-Base Percentage
- 1994: .490 Batting Average
