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Eastern Illinois shortstop Trey Sweeney made program history on Thursday (June 17) as he was named a first team All-American by Baseball America.  
 
Sweeney is just the third EIU player to earn All-American honors at the NCAA Division I level joining Stan Royer and Jimmy Govern.   He is the first EIU player to earn first-team All-America honors at the NCAA Division I level.   He is just the fifth EIU baseball player to earn NCAA Division I honors joining Marty Pattin, Mike Honel, Jeff Gossett and Tim Pyznarski on that list. 
 
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.

FIRST TEAM
C   Henry Davis, Louisville
1B Niko Kavadas, Notre Dame
2B Connor Norby, East Carolina
3B Hunter Wells, Louisiana Tech
SS Trey Sweeney, Eastern Illinois
OF Tanner Allen, Mississippi State
OF Colton Cowser, Sam Houston State
OF Aaron Zavala, Oregon
DH Mat Nelson, Florida State
SP Jack Leiter, Vanderbilt
SP Doug Nikhazy, Mississippi
SP Kumar Rocker, Vanderbilt
SP Gavin Williams, East Carolina
RP Kevin Kopps, Arkansas
RP Landon Sims, Mississippi State
UT Paul Skenes, Air Force
 
SECOND TEAM
C   Daniel Susac, Arizona
1B Ethan Long, Arizona State
2B Jace Jung, Texas Tech
3B Tyler Locklear, Virginia Commonwealth
SS Brooks Lee, Cal Poly
OF Kyler Fedko, Connecticut
OF Quincy Hamilton, Wright State
OF Brock Jones, Stanford
DH Jacob Berry, Arizona
SP Rodney Boone, UC Santa Barbara
SP Geremy Guerrero, Indiana State
SP Ty Madden, Texas
SP Andrew Taylor, Central Michigan
RP Sean Hunley, Tennessee
RP Carson Palmquist, Miami
UT Spencer Schwellenbach, Nebraska
 
THIRD TEAM
C Hunter Goodman, Memphis
1B Liam McGill, Bryant
2B Jackson Glenn, Dallas Baptist
3B Jake Rucker, Tennessee
SS Benjamin Cowles, Maryland
OF Kyle Battle, Old Dominion
OF Jonny Butler, North Carolina State
OF Sal Frelick, Boston College
DH Wes Clarke, South Carolina
SP Andrew Abbott, Virginia
SP Brendan Beck, Stanford
SP Landon Marceaux, Louisiana State
SP Matt Mikulski, Fordham
RP Taylor Broadway, Mississippi
RP Nick Jones, Georgia Southern
UT Justin Campbell, Oklahoma State