South Carolina pitcher Jackson Soucie enters NCAA transfer portal

South Carolina pitcher Jackson Soucie entered the NCAA transfer portal, On3’s Pete Nakos has learned. He made 14 appearances, including five starts, this past season.

Soucie went 3-1 with 32 strikeouts across 30 innings in 2025 – his first year at South Carolina. He arrived from Wabash Valley College (Ill.), where he helped the program finish second in the the NJCAA World Series.

One of Soucie’s best performances came in April against USC Upstate. He recorded a season-high five strikeouts while throwing 3.1 scoreless innings in the victory, and he had three strikeouts in five innings two weeks later in a win over North Florida.

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At Wabash Valley, Jackson Soucie had an 8-2 record with a 2.18 ERA across 70.1 innings in 2024. He also had 98 strikeouts as he became the Great Rivers Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year. A Cambridge, Ontario native, he was also the Canadian Baseball Network Pitcher of the Year. He will have one year of eligibility remaining.

Soucie is the 12th South Carolina player to enter the transfer portal following a disappointing 2025 season – the first under Paul Mainieri. The Gamecocks went 28-29 overall and 6-24 in SEC play, although they picked up a late-season win over No. 1 LSU in the final series.

Despite the up-and-down year, On3’s Pete Nakos reported Mainieri was likely to return for Year 2 in 2026. That lined up with his comments on local radio in early May when the former LSU headman said he planned on being back in Columbia next year.

“I’m not going anywhere,” Mainieri said on 107.5 The Game. “I’m totally committed to getting this program back on track and competing for championships. There’s no conversations about anything.”

Mainieri added he believes there were lessons to be learned from this past year that will help South Carolina improve in 2026. He won two College World Series titles at LSU 2009 and 2023 and will lean on that going forward as he looks to build the the Gamecocks program back up.

“Sometimes you have to almost get to rock bottom before you can start to make the improvement to get the program to where you want it to be,” Mainieri said. “I don’t have any doubt we’re going to get there.”