University of the Incarnate Word Athletics

Matt Seale completed his four years of baseball action at Incarnate Word in the spring of 2006. Between then and his selection for the UIW Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013, seven seasons elapsed for the Cardinals and he continued to hold eight school records. He was second in two more and third in another two categories.

To date no one player at UIW has surpassed his games played (221) in his career, or the 59 games he played in the single season of 2006. Also he is the UIW leader for career at-bats (805), at-bats in a single game (7, twice), career doubles (56) and doubles in a single game (3).

Continuing with his record-setting run for the Cardinals, Seale holds the marks for career runs batted in (193), and career sacrifices (23). His career runs (198) are second and his career hits (286) likewise are second.

Over his four seasons at UIW the Cardinals were a cumulative 144-84 for a winning percentage of .632. Twice UIW and Seale won conference championships and once won the conference tournament. And two times the Cardinals advanced to the regional tournament reaching the title game in 2006. He was named to the regional all-tournament squad that spring.

In 2005 he was voted All-America by the National College Baseball Writers Association after being named All-South Central Region by that same group of voters. And that spring he was the Heartland Conference Player of the Year.

Seale was successful in the classroom also. Two years, 2005 and 2006, he was on the Heartland Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll. He received his bachelor of business administration degree from UIW in 2007.

A native of the Austin area, Seale is back in that city working as a senior personal banker with Frost Bank. He manages portfolios for more than 150 clients and he was named top sales performer for both 2010 and 2011.

His love of baseball has not receded since his days at Incarnate Word. In Austin he is active in the Men’s Senior Baseball League and he has been a volunteer for the construction of baseball diamonds in the area