Mark Henshon

Photo by: Jon Burke

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Photo by: Emma C. Marion

Photo by: Brown Athletics

Photo by: Emma C. Marion

Class:
Junior
Position:
INF
Height/Weight:
6-1 / 190
Bats/Throws:
R/R
Hometown:
Wellesley, Mass.
High School:
Roxbury Latin
Concentration:
Biology

2025: CSC Academic All-District...Appeared in 28 games, making 27 starts and served as the team’s primary first baseman…Finished with 16 runs scored and 14 RBIs…Tied for second on the team with 13 walks…Closed the season with a 12-game hitting streak and reached base in each of his final 23 games…Had a pair of hits including a home run at Columbia (3/22)…Had a bases-clearing three-run double against Rhode Island (4/16)…Finished the year with a 1.000 fielding percentage, playing error-free ball in 216 chances.

2024: Appeared and started in 38 games as the Bears first baseman…Committed only one error in 342 chances for a .997 fielding percentage…Reached base safely in 34 of his 38 games…Led the team with 32 runs scored…Ranked second in the Ivy League with 35 walks…Led the league with 28 walks in Ivy League games, 11 more than the next closest player…Posted a .402 on-base percentage…Had a nine-game hitting streak and a team-high 24-game on-base streak during the season, spanning from March 8-April 21…Reached base four times and scored four runs at Davidson (3/8)…Came a home run shy of hitting for the cycle at Penn (3/22)…Reached base three times and scored three runs at Harvard (3/31)…Had two hits, three walks, three RBIs, three runs, and delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning against Cornell (5/4).

Summer 2023: Played for the Sag Harbor Whalers of the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League…Hit .302 with 26 runs, 29 RBIs and 22 walks in 30 games…Named to the league’s all-star game.

2023: Made 19 appearances, including 16 starts, primarily serving as the team’s second baseman…Tied for third on Brown with a .397 on-base percentage…Fourth on the team with a .305 batting average…Earned two Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors during the season…Went 5-for-9 with three runs and two walks in Brown’s three-game series at Cornell to earn Ivy Rookie of the Week…Picked up three hits, two RBIs and a run scored at Holy Cross (5/2), then went 3-for-5 with four RBIs and a run scored in a win over Princeton (5/7) to go a combined 8-for-16 over the final four games to earn his second Ivy Rookie of the Week honor.

Before Brown: Team captain in baseball, basketball and cross country at Roxbury Latin…Posted a .479/.600/1.496 slash line with 23 runs and 15 extra base hits in 16 games as a senior in 2022…Earned All-ISL and All-NEBJ First Team honors as a senior in 2022…Also earned All-ISL and All-New England honors in basketball during his senior season…Three-time All-ISL and All-New England honoree in cross country…Received the Johnny Pesky Teammate Award…Member of the Cum Laude Society…Class of 1913 Award recipient for significant contributions to Roxbury Latin.

Personal: Son of Amanda and Matt Henshon…Has two brothers, Will and James…His father, Matt, played basketball for Princeton from 1987-91.

Why Brown?: “I chose Brown because of how enthusiastic the coaches and the current players were about the program as well as how welcoming they were when I visited the campus. They made me feel like I was at home. The chance to get an elite education and compete in the Ivy League was also very appealing.”