ACADEMIC HONORS
• Sun Belt Conference Honor Roll, 2017-18
• Athletic Director’s Honor Roll, Spring 2018; Spring 2020
ATHLETIC HONORS
• Second-Team All-Sun Belt, 2018
• National Player of the Week, May 14, 2018 (Collegiate Baseball)
AT GEORGIA STATE: Big right-handed hitter who hit 19 home runs, including two grand slams ... Played primarily first base or DH but saw time at third base and in left field ... Homered on Opening Day each of this first two seasons ... Homered in his first collegiate at-bat in 2018 and then in his final home game in 2021.
2021: Hit eight home runs in 92 at-bats, including five in the last eight games ... Second on the team in homers and fourth with 24 RBI ... Played in 40 games, including 22 starts ... Homered on Senior Day vs. Little Rock with a three-run blast in the first inning ... Also hit a solo homer in Game 1 of the Little Rock series ... Two homers and five RBI in Game 2 win vs. Texas State. Hit a two-run homer in the first inning and a three-run shot in the seventh ... Homered twice, including a grand slam, and drove in five runs in Game 1 of DH vs. App State. Followed with two hits and two RBI in the nightcap, in which he started GSU’s nine-run, 9th-inning rally with an RBI single ... Hit a solo homer at Vanderbilt ...Solo homer and RBI-single vs. Mercer ... Hit by pitch 10 times.
2020: Started 15 games at first base ... Had eight RBI with two homers and two doubles ... Drove in a career-high six runs with a grand slam and a two-run double to lead Georgia State to a series-clinching 9-4 win over North Alabama ... Also homered in the final game of the season to help GSU to a 10-7 win over UNC Asheville ... Had eight RBI in the final four games.
2019: Part-time starter at first or third base but missed significant time due to injury ... Played in 34 games with two homers and 17 RBI.
Homered on Opening Day for the second straight year with a two-run blast vs. Richmond ... Contributed a single, double and two RBI in win over Furman (4-3-19) ... Hit a two-run homer vs. ULM (4-7-19) ... Had five RBI in Coastal Carolina series with a two-run single in Saturday’s extra-innings loss and then a two-run double in the eighth inning that provided key insurance runs in Sunday’s 15-11 comeback win ... Preseason All-Sun Belt selection as the DH.
2018: Earned second-team All-Sun Belt Conference honors as a designated hitter ... Hit seven homers, seven doubles and 19 RBI in 39 games ... Most home runs by a GSU freshman since Jay Langston hit seven in 1997; third most ever by a Panther freshman ... Hit .241 for the season but finished with a nine-game hitting streak during which he hit .313 with five homers and seven RBI.
Named National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball newspaper on May 14 after a week in which he homered in three straight games and then had a walk-off single ... Started with a solo homer, his fifth of the season, in 7-4 win at Kennesaw State (5-8-18) .... In Friday night win over App State (5-11-18), hit a two-run homer in the seventh to put GSU up 4-0 and send the Panthers to a 4-2 win ... Followed with another solo homer in one-run loss to App State (5-12-18), and the delivered the walk-off in Sunday’s rubber game. After Nick Gatewood was intentionally walked to load the bases with one out in the bottom of the ninth of a tie game, he hit the first pitch through the left side for the 3-2 victory.
Made a splash in his debut as he hit a two-run homer in his first collegiate at-bat and drove in all three runs in the Panthers’ 3-1 Opening Day victory over Bradley ... Had another RBI vs. Minnesota (2-19-18) ... Drove in GSU’s first run at Auburn (2-20-18) with a double in the first inning ... Had four hits in the Jacksonville series ... Hit his second homer vs. Morehouse ... Hit a .400-foot, two-run homer and also had an RBI-single at Furman (4-4-18) ... Had four hits and two RBI in sweep of Arkansas State ... Hit his fourth homer vs. Louisiana (4-29-18).
HIGH SCHOOL: 2017 Rawlings-Perfect Game Honorable Mention All-American and Southeast All-Region second team ... Perfect Game Underclass All-American in 2016 (third team) and 2015 (honorable mention) ... Hit .461 as a senior at Woodward Academy with 12 homers and 49 RBI.
PERSONAL: Full name is Ryan Bentley Glass ... Born June 21, 1999 ... Parents are Rodney Glass and Tina Lucas-Glass ... Earned his degree in interdisciplinary studies - law and society, in the spring of 2021.
