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Wilson nets 3 more All-American honors
1/31/2023 11:31:00 AM | Baseball
GCU shortstop lands on D1Baseball.com 1st team, Baseball America and NCBWA 2nd teams
Grand Canyon junior shortstop Jacob Wilson added three more Preseason All-American honors to his resume.
Wilson landed on D1Baseball.com's first team and Baseball America's second team announced on Monday. The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named Wilson to its All-America second team on Wednesday.
He was also named the No. 1 pure hitter and No. 3 defensive infielder by Baseball America.
Wilson was already named a second-team Preseason All-American by Collegiate Baseball on Dec. 19 alongside teammate Daniel Avitia, a sophomore pitcher. He also picked up honors from Perfect Game on Jan. 4, landing on its first team.
Wilson was the first GCU player to land on the Preseason All-American lists of D1Baseball.com, Baseball America and the NCBWA.
Wilson, who was a Golden Spikes Award semifinalist last season, shares D1Baseball.com first-team honors with position players from Florida, LSU, Maryland, North Carolina, Stanford, TCU and Wake Forest.
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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Wilson landed on D1Baseball.com's first team and Baseball America's second team announced on Monday. The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named Wilson to its All-America second team on Wednesday.He was also named the No. 1 pure hitter and No. 3 defensive infielder by Baseball America.
Wilson was already named a second-team Preseason All-American by Collegiate Baseball on Dec. 19 alongside teammate Daniel Avitia, a sophomore pitcher. He also picked up honors from Perfect Game on Jan. 4, landing on its first team.
Wilson was the first GCU player to land on the Preseason All-American lists of D1Baseball.com, Baseball America and the NCBWA.
Wilson, who was a Golden Spikes Award semifinalist last season, shares D1Baseball.com first-team honors with position players from Florida, LSU, Maryland, North Carolina, Stanford, TCU and Wake Forest.
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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