DURHAM, N.C. – University of South Alabama baseball outfielder Ethan Wilson was named First-Team Freshman All-America by Baseball America and D1Baseball on Friday.

It marks the third organization to honor Wilson as a Freshman All-American after he earned First-Team Freshman All-America accolades from Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

Wilson was also named the Co-National Freshman of the Year by Collegiate Baseball, Third-Team All-America by Collegiate Baseball and Third-Team All-America by the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings, as well as being a First-Team All-Central Region and First-Team All-Sun Belt Conference selection.

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. 

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2019 Baseball America Freshman All-America Teams
FIRST TEAM
C Austin Wells, Arizona
1B Aaron Sabato, North Carolina
2B Cody Morissette, Boston College
3B Alex Binelas, Louisville
SS Josh Hood, Pennsylvania
OF Hunter Goodman, Memphis
OF Tyler McDonough, North Carolina State
OF Ethan Wilson, South Alabama
DH Adrian Del Castillo, Miami
UTL Davis Sharpe, Clemson
SP JT Ginn, Mississippi State
SP Doug Nikhazy, Mississippi
SP Kumar Rocker, Vanderbilt
SP Tyler Thornton, Saint Mary's
RP Will Dion, McNeese State
RP Michael McGreevy, UC Santa Barbara

SECOND TEAM
C Taylor Smith, Incarnate Word
1B Sonny DiChiara, Samford
2B Tyler Black, Wright State
3B John Dempsey, Wofford
SS Ethan Murray, Duke
OF Colton Cowser, Sam Houston State
OF Andy Garriolla, Old Dominion
OF Hudson Haskin, Tulane
DH Dayton Dooney, Arizona
UTL Isaac Coffey, Oral Roberts
SP Rodney Boone, UC Santa Barbara
SP Seth Lonsway, Ohio State
SP Chris Weber, Texas A&M
SP Alex Williams, Stanford
RP Clayton Beeter, Texas Tech
RP Danny Garcia, Stetson