2012: First-team All-CAA at Outfielder ... Helped lead Seahawks to CAA regular season and conference tournament titles ... Earned CAA All-Tournament honors ... Led UNCW for second straight season with .372 batting average ... Also set career-high with seven triples and six home runs ... Homered twice at NCAA Raleigh Regional ... Led lineup with 18 doubles ... Also swiped 17 baes in 21 attempts ... Committed just one error in 124 total chances in the outfield ... Hit .364 against CAA pitching ... Second on team with 11 HBP ... Concluded career ranked amongst UNCW's all-time leaders in triples (2nd, 10), OBA (3rd, .438), batting avg (6th, .349), HBP (6th, 30), hits (10th, 220).
2011:
First Team All-CAA at Designated Hitter ... Split time between outfield, catcher
and designated hitter ... Three-time CAA Player-of-the-Week ... Led CAA with .396
batting average, becoming the first Seahawk to do so since 1989 ... Set
career-highs in nine offensive categories ... Also led conference with .488 on
base average ... Paced Seahawks with 19 stolen bases ... fashioned career-high
11-game hitting streak, hitting .500 (21-42) over that span with 15 RBI ... Also
had three streaks of five games or better ... Concluded season reaching base
safely in each of his final 28 games ... Had 26 multiple hit games and 14 with
multiple RBI ... Had four hits and knocked in three runs against Campbell (4/5) ...
Went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and five driven in, including a grand slam,
against Hofstra (4/22) ... Also homered against Jacksonville (2/19), North
Florida (3/16), Elon (5/3) and Old Dominion (5/15).
2010: CAA All-Tournament ... Played in 37 contests, starting 22 ... Hit .278and
set career-high with 14 RBI ... knocked in game-winning runs against Coll. of Charleston
(5/20).
Summer of 2009: Played in Coastal
Plain League All-Star game ... Hit .309, stole 11 bases and posted .421 on-base
average for Asheboro.
2009: Saw majority of time in
centerfield ... Collected three hits against nationally-ranked Kent State ...
Scored season-high three runs three times Successful on 9-of-10 stolen base
opportunities.
At Clinton: Teammate of current
Seahawk Cody Stanley at Clinton ... Two-time All-State selection ... Four-year starter
for Dark Horses ... Three-time All-East Central Conference selection ... Team MVP
in 2008 ... Played in three 2A State tournaments ... Finished second in state with
.587 batting average and seven home runs his senior season ... Also stole 31
bases and scored 42 runs ... Hit .581 as a junior with 51 runs scored and 40
stolen bases ... Listed in ImpactBaseball.com's top 50 prospects in North
Carolina ... Helped lead Carolina Cubs to fifth-place finish at 2008 World Wood
Bat Championships.
Personal: Full name: Charles
Thomas Pope ... Born on Nov. 2, 1989, in Clinton, N.C. ... Son of Sharon Strickland
and Glenn Pope ... National Education Honor Society ... Three-time Presidential
and North Carolina Academic Scholar ... Achieved rank of Eagle Scout.
