Brayden Ricketts

Photo by: Levi Jones/Indiana Athletics

Photo by: Cooper Shannon/Indiana Athletics

Weight:
210
Height:
6-2
Position:
C
Year:
Redshirt Freshman
Hometown:
Brampton, Ontario
High School:
Jean Augustine Secondary

2026 (Redshirt Freshman Season)
Awards: Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week (3/2) following a nine-hit weekend at Western Kentucky.

Season: Played in 48 games with 43 starts in his first season of action … made 27 starts as the designated hitter and 16 behind the plate … hit .235 on the year with 36 hits, 24 runs, nine home runs, 28 RBIs and six doubles … tied for third on the team in walks (27) … provided nine multi-hit games and three multi-RBI efforts … had three-hit days against Notre Dame (2/22), Western Kentucky (2/28 and 3/1) and Rutgers (4/5) … first career hit came in the second game of a doubleheader at No. 11 North Carolina (2/14) … lone multi-home run game of the year came at Western Kentucky (3/1) … also had a season high five RBIs in the win over the Hilltoppers … played the first 44 games of the year before missing time with a wrist injury … had four home runs in Big Ten play – including a pinch hit three-run blast at Purdue (5/8) … final plate appearance of the year was a pinch hit walk in ninth-inning comeback against Illinois (5/15).

2025 (Freshman Season)
Season: Redshirted his initial season on campus.

Prep/Personal
Played for Canadian Premier and attended Jean Augustine Secondary School in Ontario … won the Canada Games in back-to-back years representing Team Ontario … played for the Canadian Junior National team … ranked as the No. 16 overall prospect, and the No. 2 catcher, in Ontario by Perfect Game … favorite MLB team is the Toronto Blue Jays … intends to major in Pre-Business through the Kelley School of Business … son of Lauren Huk and Peter Ricketts … mother (Softball) and father (Hockey) both played Division One athletics at Niagara in New York.