Hall of Fame
Conor Bierfeldt is considered the best baseball player to hail from Western Connecticut State University, where his record-setting career culminated with his selection by the Baltimore Orioles in the 2013 Major League Baseball June Amateur Draft.
Bierfeldt was named the LEC Player of the Year in 2012 and 2013, making him the first player to be named Player of the Year in back-to-back seasons and the second be presented with the league’s top honor twice in his career. He was named a First Team All-American by both the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and D3baseball.com in 2012 and was named a Third Team All-American by both organizations in 2013. To-date, he the only player in program history to be named LEC Player of the Year and receive All-America honors.
To-date, Bierfeldt is also the only player in program history to be named an All-LEC selection three times, having been named Second Team All-Conference in as a sophomore before being named First Team All-Conference his junior and senior campaigns. Other program firsts include being named All-Region three times by the ABCA, twice being named All-Region by D3baseball.com, and being named the Regional Player of the Year, which he garnered from both organizations in 2011 and repeated from the ABCA in 2012. Bierfeldt went on to be named to the D3baseball.com 2010’s All-Decade Team as one of nine total LEC selections.
A native of Torrington, Connecticut, Bierfeldt finished his collegiate career as the program record-holder in batting average (.412), doubles (47), triples (13) and RBI (148), each of which still stands to this day. He additionally ranks second all-time at WestConn in home runs (24), third in runs scored (126), and is fourth in hits (168).
He batted .430 with 61 hits, 16 doubles, six triples, 10 homers, 50 RBI and 48 runs scored in 2012 on his way to being named LEC Player of the Year and a First Team All-American for the first time in 2012. Bierfeldt followed that up by batting .396 with 53 hits, 16 doubles, four triple, nine homers, 54 RBI and 40 runs scored in his senior campaign. His 61 hits in 2012 and 54 RBI in 2013 are still the program’s single-season records; he ranks in the single-season Top-10 multiple times in multiple categories.
After being drafted, Bierfeldt played six professional seasons between the MLB’s minor leagues and independent ball, reaching the AA level with the Eastern League’s Bowie Baysox in 2016. He played in 614 games, totaling 511 hits, 136 doubles, 100 home runs, 367 RBI and 308 runs scored.
Bierfeldt earned his bachelor’s degree from Western Connecticut in 2013 and was inducted into the WestConn Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.