High School:  Two-year varsity baseball letterwinner at St. Francis High School under head coach Mike Oakland … ranked No. 33 in the 2016 Perfect Game USA Top High School Prospects in the state of California … ranked No. 255 in the 2016 Perfect Game USA Top 500 High School Prospects … Selected by the St. Louis Cardinals as the 1,216th overall pick in the 40th round of the 2016 MLB Draft … 2016 MaxPreps All-American second team … Two-time MaxPreps All-State first team All-American … Two-time Prep2Prep All-Central Coast Section Player of the Year …2016 CalHiSports All-State first team … 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Metro Player of the Year … Two-time San Jose Mercury News All-Area Player of the Year … 2016 American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-Region 8 Team … 2015 Perfect Game USA high honorable mention Underclass All-American … 2015 MaxPreps Underclass first team All-American … 2015 CalHiSports All-State first team Underclass All-American … 2015 CalHiSports State Junior of the Year … played for the New York Yankees at the 2015 Area Code Games in Long Beach, Calif. … 2014 Perfect Game USA high honorable mention Underclass All-American … named to the 2014 PG MLK Championship All-Tournament team … as a senior at St. Francis HS, led team to second CIF Central Coast Section Open Division championship … also went 8-0 with an 0.96 ERA and 55 strikeouts …  as a junior hit .404 with 35 runs and 22 RBI, leading his team to the CIF Central Coast Section Open Division championship … also went 7-3 with a 1.69 ERA as a pitcher

Personal:  Full name: Jeremy Phillip Ydens... Born in Mountain View, Calif... parents are Phil and Irene Ydens … has one brother, Daniel … decided to attend UCLA because of the great academics as well as the great baseball program