DURHAM, N.C. – University of South Alabama baseball outfielder Ethan Wilson was named to the 2020 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List, as announced by the organization Thursday.

Wilson was one of 55 student-athletes named to the watch list, and the only Sun Belt Conference representative. He is the third Jaguar since 2008 to be named to the watch list, joining Travis Swaggerty (2018) and Kevin Hill (2016).

The 43rd Golden Spikes Award will be presented on June 11 in Omaha, Neb.

Wilson was also named First-Team Preseason All-America by Collegiate Baseball, and Second-Team Preseason All-America by D1Baseball earlier this year, in addition to being voted the Sun Belt Preseason Player of the Year and Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference.

He earned First-Team Freshman All-America accolades from Collegiate Baseball, Baseball America and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association last season. He 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 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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