BUTLER TWP — Connor Ollio is not your typical freshman baseball player.

Standing 6-foot-2, 180 pounds, he finished this season as Butler’s starting shortstop and hit .300. His fastball has hit 87 miles per hour and he fashioned a 1.60 earned run average in 14 innings on the mound for the Class AAAA Golden Tornado.

“He does things that freshmen aren’t supposed to be able to do ... and he’s still learning and physically developing,” Butler coach Todd Erdos said.

Ollio has been doing amazing things on a baseball diamond for a while now.

He won the Golden Arm Award at the Cooperstown (N.Y.) Dreams Park national baseball tournament in 2011.

He won the King of Swat Award at that same event the following year.

He hit .615 with seven homers and 82 RBI for Beaver Valley in the regular season in 2012, then hit .515 with five homers and 16 RBI in the Cooperstown Tournament.

He hit .455 for the Central Florida Gators travel team last summer, routinely being named to all-tournament teams.

He is among 40 semifinalists for the Team USA U-15 baseball development team. That team’s final 20-man roster will be named this summer following further player evaluation in Carey, N.C.

Ollio will play for the Gators again this summer. He caught that program’s eye by pitching against and beating them at the Cooperstown tournament, shutting down a team that had hit 84 home runs in that tournament alone.

“I’ve got players on this team from all over the place,” Central Florida Gators coach Joe Mercadante said. “We have a kid from California, Arizona, New Jersey, four or five from the Jacksonville area.

“Pretty much all of the kids who come through this program wind up playing Division I college ball. Connor won’t be an exception. We are part of and play against the best amateur baseball talent in the country. He’s excelling against that level of competition.”

The Gators play in Perfect Game USA Tournaments. Perfect Game USA is the largest amateur baseball scouting service in the world. Mercadante himself is a former assistant coach at the University of Miami (Fla.) and Central Florida.

“Amateur baseball in Florida, Georgia, California ... It’s radically different from northern states like Pennsylvania,” Mercadante said. “It’s commonplace for a freshman in Florida to be recruited and even offered.”

Ollio is already being checked out by more than 30 schools, including Wake Forest, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech and Pitt.

Ollio said he’d like to verbally commit early, maybe by the end of his sophomore year.

“He’s in a position that less than 1 percent of baseball players his age are in,” Butler basketball coach and former major league pitcher Matt Clement said. “He knows things pitching-wise now that I didn’t know until I was in the minor leagues for a few years.”

Besides pitch, Ollio plays shortstop and would like to stay there. Mercadente said his body type may eventually move him over to first base.

“This kid has all the potential in the world to compete at the next level,” Erdos said. “His pitching will even get better as his body and arm mature. He’ll throw a little harder and get more bite on his breaking ball.

“Connor has the work ethic and determination to match his physical tools. It’s going to be fun to follow him.”

The Central Florida Gators are based in Orlando. Ollio himself is hesitant to talk about his future.

“I just want to let everything play out and enjoy playing baseball,” he said. “My teammates are making me better no matter where I play.”

Mercadante said Ollio may prove good enough to be a pitcher and position player in college.

“My advice to a kid is to not choose until you have to,” he said. “All I can say about Connor Ollio is he’s playing against the highest level of competition he can and he’s not in over his head ... not at all.”