Drew Sanders Beam (born February 14, 2003) is an American

college baseball College baseball is baseball that is played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education. In comparison to football and basketball, college competition in the United States plays a smaller role in developing professional pl ...

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

for the

Tennessee Volunteers The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the 20 male and female varsity college athletics, intercollegiate athletics programs that represent the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers compete in NCAA Division I, ...

Amateur career

Beam grew up in

Murfreesboro, Tennessee Murfreesboro is a city in and county seat of Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 152,769 according to the 2020 census, up from 108,755 residents certified in 2010. Murfreesboro is located in the Nashville metropol ...

and attended

Blackman High School Blackman High School is a high school located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States which is operated by the Rutherford County Schools. The school was established in 2000 to complement the existing Blackman Elementary School. History Black ...

, where he played football and baseball. He had a record of 8–1 and a 0.37 ERA as a sophomore. Beam committed to play

at Tennessee shortly before the beginning of his junior year of high school. His junior season was canceled due to COVID-19. Beam missed his senior baseball season due to injury. Beam was named to Tennessee's starting rotation entering his freshman season. He was named the

Southeastern Conference The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ...

(SEC) Pitcher of the Week and Freshman of the Week after throwing a complete-game shutout against fifth-ranked Vanderbilt on April 3, 2022. Beam was named the SEC Freshman of the Year and second team All-Conference at the end of the season.

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Tennessee Volunteers bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beam, Drew Living people Baseball players from Tennessee Baseball pitchers Tennessee Volunteers baseball players 2003 births Sportspeople from Murfreesboro, Tennessee