# List of Baseball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year

The Baseball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year is the annual most outstanding singular college baseball athlete of the set of baseball athletes selected for the Academic All-America Teams in a given year. The following is a list of the annual selection by College Sports Communicators (CSC), known before the 2022–23 season as the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), and its Academic All-America sponsor of the individual athlete selected as the most outstanding of the annual Baseball Academic All-America selections. Between 1996 and 2011, one winner each was chosen from both the college and University Divisions for all twelve Academic All-America teams including football. The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes. The University Division team included eligible participants from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I member schools, while the College Division team included scholar-athletes from all of the following: NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), Canadian universities and colleges and two-year schools.
Beginning in 2012, CSC revamped its award structure. The University Division was renamed "Division I". Since then, NCAA Divisions II and III have had their own separate All-Americans. The College Division consisted only of non-NCAA institutions through the 2017–18 school year, after which it was effectively replaced by an NAIA division restricted to members of that governing body.
Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. The districts are as follows: – District 1 (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT), District 2 (DC, DE, KY, MD, NJ, PA, WV), District 3 (NC, TN, VA), District 4 (AL, FL, GA, PR, SC), District 5 (IL, IN, MI, OH), District 6 (AR, IA, LA, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, SD, WI, WY), – District 7 (CO, ID, KS, NE, NM, NV, OK, TX), District 8 (AK, AZ, CA, HI, OR, UT, WA, Canada). First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams (men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track & field, men's baseball, women's softball, men's American football, women's volleyball, men's and women's swimming & diving, men's and women's tennis and men's and women's at-large teams) have four Academic All-Americans of the Year, one from each division. In each of the four divisions (NAIA, Division I, Division II, and Division III), one of the twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-Americans of the Year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for that division.

## History

As of January 31, 2024, Johns Hopkins University (31) has had the most baseball Academic All-America honorees, just ahead of Bucknell University and Notre Dame University with 30 each. While Bucknell has had an athlete win this award, neither Notre Dame's nor Johns Hopkins' athletes have been recognized with this award.
On August 7, 2012, Division III honoree Drew Golz of Wheaton College became the first Baseball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year to be named Division III Academic All-America Team Member of the Year. That same year Golz had been named Men's Soccer Academic All-America Team Member of the Year, becoming the first male student-athlete to be named Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for two different sports in the same year. The next day, Division II honoree Bryan Lippincott of Concordia University, St. Paul became the Division II Academic All-America Team Member of the Year. Thus, for the 2011–12 academic calendar, baseball had the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for two of the four Divisions. The most recent baseball awardee that was named overall Academic All-America Team Member of the Year is John Coleman of Division III Clarkson University. Like Golz, Clarkson was named Academic All-America Team Member of the Year, having been previously named Academic All-America Team Member of the Year in basketball. Coleman was the third and second male two-sport honoree, following Golz in 2011–12 and Cynthia Capp of West Virginia Wesleyan who earned the honor in volleyball (1990) and softball (1991).
When the Division I level was known as the University Division, it had repeat back-to-back winners in 2000 and 2001 as well as 2002 and 2003 with Casey Myers (of Arizona State Sun Devils baseball) being followed by Jeff Leise (of Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball). In 2001 and 2002, Douglas Hargett of University of North Alabama was the first College Division repeat winner before the College Division was split. Since Division II and Division III were split from NAIA, two-year and Canadian schools, Conner Combs repeated for the Division III East Texas Baptist Tigers in 2016 and 2017.

## Tables of winners

Key :
| † | Indicates winners of the all-sports Academic All-America award. |
All winners are American unless indicated otherwise.

### Two-division era (1988–2011)

Baseball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year (1988–2011) :
| Year | University Division Winner | School | College Division Winner | School |
| 1988 | Wesley Bliven | Santa Clara | Greg Slappey | Georgia Southwestern |
| 1989 | Burke Masters | Mississippi State | Bill Holmes | Marietta |
| 1990 | Joe Markulike | Bucknell | Sittichoke Huckuntod | Central Missouri |
| 1991 | Joey Hamilton | Mississippi State | Kevin Kluemper | Rose–Hulman |
| 1992 | Charlie Giaudrone | Wichita State | Howard Forman | Trenton State |
| 1993 | Aaron Gries | Evansville | Matt Cannon | Aurora |
| 1994 | Tommy Minor | Fresno State | Eric Miller | Pittsburg State |
| 1995 | Mike Drumwright | Wichita State | Matt Kechely | Nebraska Wesleyan |
| 1996 | Clint Bryant | Texas Tech | Brian Mazurek | St. Francis Fighting Saints baseball |
| 1997 | Andy Matko | Wright State | Bryan Welder | Augustana (IL) |
| 1998 | Charley Carter | Baylor | James Rinne | Illinois Wesleyan |
| 1999 | Hunter Bledsoe | Vanderbilt | David Bradley | Marietta |
| 2000 | Casey Myers | Arizona State | Andy Reeb | St. Francis (IL) |
| 2001 | Casey Myers | Arizona State | Douglas Hargett | North Alabama |
| 2002 | Jeff Leise | Nebraska | Douglas Hargett | North Alabama |
| 2003 | Jeff Leise | Nebraska | Kyle Foster | Emory |
| 2004 | Wade Townsend | Rice | Brady Endl | Wisconsin–Whitewater |
| 2005 | Chris Looze | George Mason | Eric Cirella | Salve Regina |
| 2006 | Philip Coker | Charleston | Adam Deurfeldt | Central (IA) |
| 2007 | Aaron Ivey | Oklahoma | Casey Jirsa | Ashland |
| 2008 | Buster Posey | Florida State | Gabe MacDougall | Lynn |
| 2009 | Michael Leake | Arizona State | Jon Alia | Cal State Dominguez Hills |
| 2010 | Jim Klocke | Southeast Missouri State | Matt Schuld | St. Thomas (MN) |
| 2011 | Matt Rice | Western Kentucky | Brian Lippincott | Concordia (MN) |

### Four-division era (2012–present)

Baseball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year (2012–present) :
| Year | Div. I Winner | School | Div. II Winner | School | Div. III Winner | School | College/NAIA Winner | School |
| 2012 | James Ramsey | Florida State | Brian Lippincott† | Concordia (MN) | Drew Golz† | Wheaton (IL) | Chad Carman | Oklahoma City |
| 2013 | LB Dantzler | South Carolina | Taylor Rakes | Tusculum | Brandon Toughey | Baldwin Wallace | Alan Spanel | Doane |
| 2014 | Tim Colwell | North Dakota State | Austin Kaiser | Colorado Mesa | Travis Mason | St. Norbert | EJ Grochowalsk | Davenport |
| 2015 | Sam Koenig | Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Michael Jurgella | St. Cloud State | John Coleman† | Clarkson | Josh DeGraaf | Taylor |
| 2016 | Cole Gruber | Nebraska Omaha | Christian Binger | Southwest Baptist | Conner Combs | East Texas Baptist | Alex Webb | British Columbia |
| 2017 | Ben Fisher | Eastern Kentucky | Tyler Falk | Clarion | Conner Combs | East Texas Baptist | Glen McClain | Indiana Tech |
| 2018 | Devlin Granberg | Dallas Baptist | Jacob Blank | Augustana (SD) | Spencer Badia | Baldwin Wallace | Augie Isaacson | Friends |
| 2019 | Trevor Ezell | Arkansas | Mason Janvrin | Central Missouri | Mike Aiello | Wisconsin–Whitewater | Glen McClain | Indiana Tech |
| 2020 | Nick Howie | Eastern Kentucky | Aaron Anderson | Flagler | Derek Manning | Elizabethtown | Troy Puga | Friends |
| 2021 | Brendan Beck | Stanford | Haydn McGeary | Colorado Mesa | Matt Mulhearn | Webster | Hunter Dollander | Georgia Gwinnett |
| 2022 | Aaron Anderson | Liberty | Connor Hamilton | Slippery Rock | Ryan Enos | Oswego State | Peyton Crispin | Oklahoma City |
| 2023 | Jake Gelof | Virginia | Alex Epp | William Jewell | Tyler Horvat | Washington & Jefferson | Eric Maffie | St. Francis (IL) |
| 2024 | Jac Caglianone | Florida | Alex Epp | William Jewell | Matt Scolan | Wisconsin–Whitewater | Tyler Horner | Oregon Tech |