2019 NCBWA Freshman All-Americans

LYNCHBURG, Va. – University of South Alabama outfielder Ethan Wilson was named First-Team Freshman All-America by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association on Monday.

It marks the second organization to honor Wilson with Freshman All-America honors after Collegiate Baseball named him the Co-National Freshman of the Year as well as a First-Team Freshman All-America last week. Wilson was also a Third-Team All-America selection by Collegiate Baseball. He is the program's 12th Freshman All-American, and the first since Travis Swaggerty earned the honor from Collegiate Baseball in 2016. 

The Andalusia, Ala., native was voted the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year, and was also a First-Team All-Sun Belt selection in the outfield, after finishing the season ranked second in the league in slugging percentage (.686) and total bases (151), tied for second in home runs (17), tied for third in runs scored (59), sixth in batting average (.345) and on-base percentage (.453), tied for eighth in hits (76), ninth in RBIs (51) and tied for ninth in doubles (16). Wilson was the only NCAA Division I freshman in the nation to be named conference player of the year.

He broke the program's freshman home run record, and his 17 home runs in 2019 are the most by a Jaguar since Jeff Cunningham's single-season record of 22 in 2007. Wilson is the first Jaguar to receive postseason honors from the NCBWA since right-handed pitcher Kevin Hill earned Third-Team All-America accolades in 2016.

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