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2026 Baseball Roster

31 Brian Dowling

  • Height 6-6
  • Weight 210
  • B/T L/L
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Avon, Conn.
  • High School Avon Old Farms
  • Position Left-Handed Pitcher
  • House Affiliation Pforzheimer
  • Concentration Applied Mathematics

Biography

2026 • Senior

Allstate NACDA Spring Good Works Team nominee … Made 14 appearances out of the bullpen … Went 1-2 with a 9.39 ERA over 23.0 innings … Tallied 15 strikeouts … Earned recognition as a Good Works Team nominee for his commitment to community service, academic achievement, and athletic performance … Helped spearhead Harvard baseball’s work with the Movember project to raise money for men’s mental health and testicular cancer research, as well as the program’s weekly visits to mentor students at Cunniff Elementary School in Watertown, Massachusetts … Earned CSC Academic All-District honors in 2024 … Threw 0.2 scoreless innings at California Baptist (Mar. 13) … Tossed 2.2 scoreless innings with two strikeouts at Columbia (Mar. 21) … Added 1.2 scoreless innings at Cornell (Mar. 29) … Struck out three over 3.0 innings vs. UMass (Apr. 14) … Earned the win vs. Dartmouth (Apr. 18), throwing 3.0 scoreless innings with one hit allowed … Recorded five strikeouts over 4.2 innings at Holy Cross (Apr. 28).

2025 • Junior

Made 12 appearances, including five starts, on the season … Tallied an 8.84 ERA with 22 strikeouts over 37.2 innings on the year … Ranked third on the team in innings pitched (37.2) … Threw 9.2 innings over five appearances in Ivy League play, notching nine strikeouts … Threw 4.0 scoreless innings with three strikeouts in the start at Massachusetts (Apr. 1) in the semifinals of The Baseball Beanpot … Tossed 4.1 innings in the start in the championship game of The Baseball Beanpot at Fenway Park against Northeastern (Apr. 29) … Permitted just one earned run over 3.2 innings in the start in the Ivy League Tournament against Yale (May 18). 

2024 • Sophomore

Earned CSC Academic All-District honors … Made 10 appearances and five starts on the season … Tallied an 11.29 ERA, 2.37 WHIP, 1-3 record, and 21 strikeouts over 36.2 innings on the year … Threw a season-high 6.0 innings in the win vs. Massachusetts (Apr. 9), allowing two runs on five hits and no walks with four strikeouts … Notched a season-high five strikeouts over 4.2 innings at Holy Cross (Mar. 27). 

2023 • First-year

Made two appearances on the mound … Posted a 0.00 ERA over 1.1 innings, allowing no runs on one hit and no walks … Threw 1.0 scoreless inning at FIU (Mar. 4) … Tossed 0.1 scoreless innings at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Mar. 16). 

Before Harvard

Earned All-Founders League honors in 2022 … Made the League Championship in the inaugural playoff season of 2022 … Helped team win every series it played in 2021 … Won the Tim Straus Award for improvement in athletics in 2022 … Served team as captain as a senior … Earned four varsity letters in baseball … Competed on the travel level for Baseball U CT from 2019-21 … Also competed in basketball, football, and cross country … Gained basketball team’s Coaches Award in 2021 and 2022 … Head of School List and a Cum Laude Society student … Gained the Order of Old Farms – the school’s highest service award … A Head Monitor, Admissions Ambassador, Big Brother mentor, and peer tutor … Garnered the Harvard Book Prize in 2021 … Son of Amy and Rob Dowling; Rob, played football and baseball at Trinity from 1991-95 … Uncle, Patrick Dowling, played baseball at Dartmouth from 2001-04.

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Historical Player Information

  • 31

    2023First-Year

    Left-Handed Pitcher
    6'6" 215 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2024Sophomore

    Left-Handed Pitcher
    6'6" 210 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2025Junior

    Left-Handed Pitcher
    6'6" 210 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2026Senior

    Left-Handed Pitcher
    6'6" 210 lbs
    31