University of Arizona Athletics

Honors and Awards

• 2024: Pac-12 All-Conference Honorable Mention
• 2024: Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger Award watch list
• 2023: Golden Spikes Performance of the Week (5/3)

Arizona 2024 (Senior)
Capped off collegiate career with 56 games and 53 starts in a Wildcat uniform as a senior...Pac-12 Conference regular season and tournament team champion...Picked up Pac-12 All-Conference Honorable Mention nod...Earned a spot on the Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger Award watch list...Hit .262 with 42 runs scored, seven doubles, seven triples, six home runs, and 30 RBI...Also drew 14 walks en route to a .322 on-base percentage...Led the team and the conference while ranking tied for seventh nationally with seven triples...Also paced the team and ranked tied for fifth in the Pac-12 with 15 stolen bases, the most by a Wildcat since 2015...Drove in winning run on a sacrifice fly in walk-off fashion over UCLA on March 29...Started 28-of-30 games in Pac-12 Conference play, hitting .237 with 21 runs scored, three doubles, three triples, three home runs, and 13 RBI...Started in right field in all 53 starts and posted a sparkling .991 fielding percentage, committing just one error on 108 total chances...Logged two outfield assists from right field...Posted an impressive .984 fielding percentage on 62 chances during Pac-12 play. POSTSEASON: Saw time in five postseason games with two starts and hit .143 with one run scored and one RBI...Drove in a run against Grand Canyon and picked up a hit against Dallas Baptist at the Tucson NCAA Regional.

Arizona 2023 (Junior)
Key contributor for the Wildcats in his first season in Tucson, seeing time in 38 games with 36 starts...Hit .336 with 34 runs scored, 13 doubles, four triples, 11 home runs, 44 RBI, a .691 slugging percentage, and a .369 on-base percentage...One of six Wildcats to notch double-digit home runs, believed to be a program record...Collected 16 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI performances...Swatted three home runs on April 30 at Oregon State (4x5, 3 R, 3 HR, 8 RBI), becoming the first Wildcat with a three-HR game in 15 years; eight RBI in the game were the most by an Arizona player in 21 years...Earned Golden Spikes Performance of the Week award for three-HR game against the Beavers...Collected a pair of walk-off hits for the Wildcats, an RBI single on March 28 to defeat Grand Canyon and a game-winning solo home run on May 10 to take down Nevada...Finished the year reaching base safely in each of his last 11 games; season-long on-base streak was 14 games...Also posted a 14-game hit streak, the third longest on the team in 2023...Performed best when it mattered most, hitting .351 across 18 games (17 starts) against Pac-12 opponents...During conference play logged 20 runs, seven doubles, one triple, eight home runs, and 30 RBI...Second on the team with 30 RBI and eight home runs during Pac-12 play...Started 22 games in right field and 14 games at designated hitter...Defensively in right field, posted a .978 fielding percentage, committing just one error all year on 46 total chances...Also registered a pair of outfield assists and assisted in one double play. POSTSEASON: Started all six of the Wildcats postseason games and was second on the team with a .348 batting average...Logged five runs, three doubles, one triple, one home run, and three RBI during the postseason...Picked up five hits during the Pac-12 Tournament, two against Arizona State (2x4, R, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI) and three against Oregon State (3x5, R, 2B)...Went 3-for-8 with a double, home run, and one RBI in two games at the NCAA Fayetteville Regional.

Before Arizona
Spent time at Washington (2020-21) and Pima Community College (2021-22) before transferring to Arizona… Saw time in 55 games with the Aztecs in 2022, hitting .346 with 56 runs scored, 12 doubles, four triples, 13 home runs, and 60 RBI…Earned Second Team All-ACCAC and Second Team All-Region I, Divison I honors for 2022 efforts at Pima…Played in 20 games with the Huskies in 2021, logging four hits and scoring four runs…Prepped at San Luis Obispo High School in California…Three sport star, lettering four years in baseball (OF, C), four years in football (QB), and three years in basketball (PG)…Played prep baseball under the direction of head coach Brian Wong…First Team All-Conference honors in baseball as a junior and senior…First Team All-Conference honors in football as a senior…Second Team All-Conference selection in basketball as a senior…SLO County MVP during senior football season…All-State Third Team selection in football as a senior…Holds San Luis Obispo HS program single-season record with 52 touchdowns during senior season.
 
Personal
Emilio Mathew Corona…Son of Chris and Julie Corona…One older brother, Brayden…One younger sister, Chloe…Majoring in Business Administration...Father played soccer at Cal Poly Sal Luis Obispo…Brother played football at Whitworth University…Enjoys surfing and fishing in his free time…Born right-footed but is now left-footed…Chose Arizona because, “The coaching staff could help me get to the next level in my baseball career and give me the best chance to go to Omaha."