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2021 NCBWA All-American Teams

DALLAS – Eastern Illinois shortstop Trey Sweeney was named a third team All-American on Wednesday (June 16) as the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) released its national awards list.
 
Sweeney becomes just the third EIU player to earn All-American honors at the NCAA Division I level joining Stan Royer and Jimmy Govern.
 
Sweeney, the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year, finished the regular season ranked in the Top 50 nationally in 11 different categories including seventh in on-base percentage (.522), ninth in walks (46) and 13th in RBI (58). In 48 games Sweeney hit .382 hit 65 hits, 52 runs, 10 doubles, 14 home runs and a .712 slugging percentage while striking out only 24 times in 170 at-bats.  He was a finalist for the Brooks Wallace Award and a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award and Dick Howser Award.
 
Standouts from 47 different schools and 19 conferences join Howser Trophy finalists Jace Jung of Texas Tech, Kevin Kopps of Arkansas, Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker of Vanderbilt, and Matheu Nelson of Florida State – all first-team selections – on this dream team of collegiate diamondmen.