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, known before the 2022–23 season as the College Sports Information Directors of America, 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 baseball. 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 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, Canadian universities and [List of List of colleges in Canada|colleges in Canada|colleges] and two-year colleges.
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, District 2, District 3, District 4, District 5, District 6, District 7, District 8. First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams have four Academic All-Americans of the Year, one from each division. In each of the four divisions, 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

, Johns Hopkins University has had the most baseball Academic All-America honorees, just ahead of Bucknell University and Notre Dame University. While Bucknell has had an athlete win this award, neither Notre Dame's nor Johns Hopkins' athletes have been recognized with this Academic All-America Team Members of the Year 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 next baseball awardee to be named overall Academic All-America Team Member of the Year was 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 second male and third overall two-sport honoree, following Golz in 2011-12 and Cynthia Capp of West Virginia Wesleyan who earned the honor in volleyball and softball. The most recent baseball player to receive the overall award is Tyler Horner of Oregon Institute of Technology, aka Oregon Tech, who received both awards for 2025.
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 followed by Jeff Leise. In 2001 and 2002, Douglas Hargett of University of North Alabama was the first College Division repeat winner before the College Division was split. Concordia's Bryan Lippincott's back-to-back tenure as Academic All-American of the Year for baseball, transversed the split from 2 divisions in 2011 to 4 in 2012. 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 and the aforementioned Tyler Horner repeated as NAIA baseball recipient for 2024 and 2025.

Tables of winners

Indicates winners of the all-sports Academic All-America award.

All winners are American unless indicated otherwise.