New Tulane Catcher Elliott Brings Promise of Big Things Behind the Plate
With starting catcher Hugh Pinkney entering his senior season at Tulane, coach Jay Uhlman and his staff went looking for someone who could be next in line. Uhlman believes they've found him in Johnny Elliott.
The 6' 4", 217 lbs sophomore played his first collegiate baseball season at the University of Southern California in 2025. Appearing in 33 games with 24 starts, he hit .271 with a .388 slugging percentage and a .329 on-base percentage, scoring nine runs on his 19 hits plus driving in eight runs. Elliott recorded a season-high three hits against Michigan State (5/11).
In high school Elliott played four seasons at Mater Dei High in Newport Beach, California. As a senior there, h hit .308 with .439 slugging percentage. Played travel ball in 2024 for the Bend Elks where he hit .350 with 12 RBIs in 16 games.
With the opening weekend just a week away, we got to speak to Elliott about his move to Uptown, his strengths and weaknesses, and his relationship with senior Pinkney.
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Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.