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Wilson gets Preseason All-America nod on 1st team
1/10/2023 3:20:00 PM | Baseball
Lopes shortstop is 1st GCU player to earn spot on Preseason All-American 1st team
Grand Canyon junior shortstop Jacob Wilson added another preseason accolade to his collection, landing on Perfect Game's first team of Preseason All-Americans.
Wilson is the first player in program history to be named to the first team of a Preseason All-America selection.
"Jacob had an outstanding season for the Lopes in 2022, playing solid defense at shortstop and putting the ball in play often," the Perfect Game release read. "He's a solid first-rounder right now with a chance for a monster season ahead of him given the developmental strides he's made."
Wilson was already named a second-team Preseason All-American by Collegiate Baseball on Dec. 19 alongside teammate Daniel Avitia, a sophomore pitcher.
Perfect Game picked a GCU player for its annual Preseason All-American recognition for the first time since naming Quin Cotton to the second team in 2019.
Wilson, a reigning Golden Spikes Award semifinalist, shares first-team honors with position players from Ole Miss, LSU, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Stanford, Florida Atlantic and Davidson.
Wilson earned first-team All-WAC honors in his first two seasons at GCU with his stock continually rising. Last spring, Wilson hit .358 for a Lopes team that spent the last three weeks of the regular season in the D1Baseball.com Top 25. Wilson was the nation's toughest batter to strike out, doing so just seven times in 246 at bats. He was one of 31 semifinalists for the Golden Spikes Award, given to the nation's top college player.
Wilson made more noise this summer. He had a short but successful stint with the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League before joining USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team training camp. Amid a pool of 23 position players in a five-game intrasquad training camp, Wilson led all players in batting average (.467), runs (5), hits (7), home runs (2), RBIs (5), slugging percentage (1.000) and on-base percentage (.556). That led to an invitation to the team's final 26-man roster and a trip to the Netherlands, where he went 4 for 11 without an error on the Honkbalweek Haarlem bronze-medal team.
The continued success led to Wilson being named D1Baseball.com's Top Summer Breakout Prospect, the No. 4 college prospect for the 2023 MLB Draft and MLB Pipeline's No. 9 prospect.
GCU's season is set to get underway on Feb. 17 against UC San Diego at Scottsdale's Salt River Fields as part of the MLB Desert Invitational.
Wilson is the first player in program history to be named to the first team of a Preseason All-America selection."Jacob had an outstanding season for the Lopes in 2022, playing solid defense at shortstop and putting the ball in play often," the Perfect Game release read. "He's a solid first-rounder right now with a chance for a monster season ahead of him given the developmental strides he's made."
Wilson was already named a second-team Preseason All-American by Collegiate Baseball on Dec. 19 alongside teammate Daniel Avitia, a sophomore pitcher.
Perfect Game picked a GCU player for its annual Preseason All-American recognition for the first time since naming Quin Cotton to the second team in 2019.
Wilson, a reigning Golden Spikes Award semifinalist, shares first-team honors with position players from Ole Miss, LSU, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Stanford, Florida Atlantic and Davidson.
Wilson earned first-team All-WAC honors in his first two seasons at GCU with his stock continually rising. Last spring, Wilson hit .358 for a Lopes team that spent the last three weeks of the regular season in the D1Baseball.com Top 25. Wilson was the nation's toughest batter to strike out, doing so just seven times in 246 at bats. He was one of 31 semifinalists for the Golden Spikes Award, given to the nation's top college player.
Wilson made more noise this summer. He had a short but successful stint with the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League before joining USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team training camp. Amid a pool of 23 position players in a five-game intrasquad training camp, Wilson led all players in batting average (.467), runs (5), hits (7), home runs (2), RBIs (5), slugging percentage (1.000) and on-base percentage (.556). That led to an invitation to the team's final 26-man roster and a trip to the Netherlands, where he went 4 for 11 without an error on the Honkbalweek Haarlem bronze-medal team.
The continued success led to Wilson being named D1Baseball.com's Top Summer Breakout Prospect, the No. 4 college prospect for the 2023 MLB Draft and MLB Pipeline's No. 9 prospect.
GCU's season is set to get underway on Feb. 17 against UC San Diego at Scottsdale's Salt River Fields as part of the MLB Desert Invitational.
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