Golden Spikes Award Winners

Named SEC Player of the Year for the second straight season, LSU junior center fielder Dylan Crews was among the nation’s best all-around stars.‎‎‎‎

Ivan Melendez produced one of the greatest offensive seasons in the history of Texas Longhorns baseball, batting .421 with 32 home runs and 94 RBIs.

Arkansas redshirt senior reliever Kevin Kopps emerged as the most dominant pitcher in college baseball during the 2021 season.

Adley Rutschman set the College World Series record with 17 hits as the Beavers won the national title in 2018. And to think, he was just getting started.

Andrew Vaughn enjoyed an incredible 2018 campaign as he followed up winning 2017 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year with 23 home runs.

Two-way standout Brendan McKay was named the 2017 ACC Player of the Year while also earning All-ACC First Team honors at two positions.

Before going on to be a top selection in the 2016 MLB Draft, outfielder Kyle Lewis was a consistent performer at the plate for the Mercer Bears.

Named the 2015 SEC Player of the Year, outfielder Andrew Benintendi logged 20 home runs, sporting a .717 slugging percentage.

Two-way star A.J. Reed racked up an SEC-best 23 home runs and 73 RBIs, putting him near the top of the national leaderboard on offense.

San Diego junior infielder Kris Bryant led the nation in home runs in 2013 with 31, which tied the NCAA single-season record in the BBCOR era.

In 2012, Mike Zunino led the Florida offense with a .322 batting average and 18 home runs, and set a school single-season record with 28 doubles.

Trevor Bauer, Collegiate Baseball's National Player of the Year, had a record breaking season in 2011 as he set the Pac-10 record for strikeouts.

The No. 1 overall selection by the Nationals in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft, Bryce Harper exceeded all expectations during his freshman season at Southern Nevada.

The consensus top talent available in this year's draft, Stephen Strasburg has been nothing short of dominant for the Aztecs this season, earning Mountain West Pitcher of the Year.

All-American Buster Posey has been recognized as the college baseball player of the year by several groups, including Baseball America and the Brooks Wallace Award selection committee.

A unanimous selection to the 2007 All-America team, Price's 194 strikeouts shattered his school single-season record of 155 set the year before. Price's 11 wins marked a career high.

Tim Lincecum was named the Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year for the second time after the 2006 season, and he was named a Collegiate Baseball first-team All-American.

Alex Gordon was named a consensus first-team All-American for the second straight year, and he swept the major national awards after leading Nebraska to the CWS.

Jered Weaver was a dominant pitcher for his whole career at Long Beach State, particularly dominating the Big West Conference in each of his last two seasons.

Rickie Weeks tore up the Southern U. record books during his three years in Baton Rouge, setting single-season marks in several different offensive categories.

After being drafted in the 14th round of the 2001 First-Year Player Draft, Khalil Greene decided to go back to college and completed a remarkable four-year career.

Mark Prior completed one of the best college baseball seasons ever for a pitcher, winning seven national player of the year awards after leading USC to the College World Series.

The Columbia, S.C., native played for his hometown Gamecocks and was a dominant pitcher for four years. Bouknight set school records in starts, innings, strikeouts and victories.

Jason Jennings had an incredible two-way career at Baylor, capping it off with an award-winning junior campaign in 1999, when he won 13 games and batted .382 with 17 homers.

Miami had a dominant force at third base for three seasons, but it was Pat Burrell's junior season in 1998 that may have been his poorest.

J.D. Drew had an astounding 1997 at Florida State. He hit .455 and is one of only three college players to have 100 hits, RBIs and runs in a season.

Travis Lee seemed like the second coming of Will Clark when he burst on the scene at SDSU. He won the Golden Spikes Award after hitting .355 in 1996.

Mark Kotsay was a member of the NCAA Champion Titans when he won the Golden Spikes Award, serving as both a closer and center fielder.

Jason Varitek helped lead Georgia Tech to the College World Series championship game in 1994, his senior season in Atlanta and the year he won the Golden Spikes Award.

Darren Dreifort was a power pitcher and DH for the storied Shockers baseball program, and was one of the rare players to go directly from college to the Majors.

1992 was a big year for Phil Nevin. He was named Most Outstanding Player of the 1992 College World Series, where his Cal State-Fullerton Titans finished second.

Mike Kelly put together one of the best three-year records in the history of Arizona State baseball. He was a career .350 hitter with 197 runs, 46 doubles, 194 RBIs and 46 homers.

A Miami native, Alex Fernandez is the only Golden Spikes Award winner who didn't win the award as a player at a four-year college, transferring to Miami Dade CC.

Ben McDonald twice led Skip Bertman's Tigers to the College World Series, and won the Golden Spikes Award after winning 14 games and fanning an SEC-record 202 batters.

To say Robin Ventura's college career in Stillwater was loud would be an understatement, setting an NCAA record by hitting safely in 58 consecutive games.

Jim Abbott led the Wolverines to two Big Ten titles during his time in Ann Arbor and still found time to earn a gold medal in the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics.

Twenty wins by Mike Loynd in 1986 tied an NCAA record and helped the Florida State hurler win the Golden Spikes Award.

Will Clark's sweet swing helped lift the Bulldogs to the College World Series, where Clark was named to the all-tournament team.

Swift center fielder Oddibe McDowell went directly from the Arizona State outfield to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Dave Magadan was a professional hitter even when he was an amateur, hitting .525 in his award-winning season.

Augie Schmidt was a standout shortstop for the Privateers, good enough to be selected second overall in the 1982 MLB First-Year Player Draft.

Mike Fuentes became the first Florida State Seminole to win the Golden Spikes Award, after a sensational year as an outfielder in Tallahassee.

The Montreal Expos drafted the Golden Spikes Award winner for the second straight year when they took Terry Francona in the first round.

After Tim Wallach became the second Golden Spikes Award winner, he went on to a 17-year Major League career with five All-Star appearances.

Bob Horner set a then-NCAA record with 58 home runs during his ASU career and was named MVP of the 1977 College World Series.