Corban Athletics

2026: Served as the team’s starting rotation game one ace in his redshirt senior season of eligibility, making 13 starts with a 6.41 ERA in 59.0 innings while securing 23 strikeouts and tossed a complete game with a team-high four wins… Member of the 2026 Corban Baseball team that finished 17-33 overall and 13-24 in CCC contests for a sixth-place finish in the conference standings. The program had 23 student-athletes named to Academic All-Conference honors, 11 NAIA Scholar-Athletes, and five Academic All-District selections and were named to the CCC Team Sportsmanship Award for a second-consecutive season…

2025: Redshirted… Member of the 2025 Corban Baseball team that finished 14-36 overall and 9-28 in CCC contests for a seventh-place finish in the conference standings. The program had fifteen student-athletes named to Academic All-Conference honors, nine NAIA Scholar-Athletes, five Academic All-District honorees, and one All-Conference member during the 2025 season…

Personal: Kovanen enters the Navy and Gold roster with two years of eligibility after spending the season at University of Jamestown. At Wenatchee, he played all four years of baseball and was a member of the swim and dive team his freshman and sophomore years. Kovanen was the baseball team MVP and had a 2.6 ERA.

Kovanen will complete his undergraduate degree in business administration.