Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball honors and awards

This is a list of major awards and honors won by members of the Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team, which represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I. The program began play in 1889.

Nebraska has been to 19 NCAA baseball tournaments and advanced to four super regionals (2000, 2001, 2002, 2005) and three College World Series (2001, 2002, 2005). The Cornhuskers have won eight regular season conference championships (1929, 1948, 1950, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2017, 2021) and four conference tournament championships (1999–2001, 2005). They have had eighteen 40-win seasons, including nine since 1999, as well as three 50-win seasons. The Cornhuskers won the program's first Big Ten championship in 2017.

National awards

Winner

Finalist

Semifinalist

Golden Spikes Award Darin Erstad – 1995 Ken Harvey – 1999 Alex Gordon – 2005 Scott Schreiber – 2018

Dick Howser Trophy Shane Komine – 2000 Dan Johnson – 2001 Alex Gordon – 2004, 2005

ABCA Player of the Year Jed Morris – 2002 Alex Gordon – 2005

Rotary Smith Award Ken Harvey – 1999 Shane Komine – 2002

Buster Posey Award Justin Cowan – 2000 Mitch Abeita – 2008

Brooks Wallace Award Alex Gordon – 2005

John Olerud Award Jake Meyers – 2017 Spencer Schwellenbach – 2021

BA Coach of the Year Dave Van Horn – 2001

NCBWA District Player of the Year

Shane Komine – 2000

Dan Johnson – 2001

Jeff Leise – 2002

Matt Hopper – 2003

Alex Gordon – 2004, 2005

Luke Gorsett –2006

All-Americans

Nebraska has received a combined 105 All-America certificates from the ABCA, Baseball America, Baseball Weekly, Collegiate Baseball, NCBWA, Perfect Game, and Sporting News. The program has also received fifteen first-team freshman All-America certificates.

First-team Bob Cerv, OF – 1950 Don Brown, 3B – 1955 Gene Stohs, OF – 1972 Steve Stanicek, 1B – 1982 Paul Meyers, OF – 1986 Troy Brohawn, P – 1993 Marc Sagmoen, OF – 1993 Darin Erstad, OF – 1995 Ken Harvey, 1B – 1999 Shane Komine, P – 2000, 2001 John Cole, OF/2B – 2001 Dan Johnson, 1B – 2001 Matt Hopper, DH – 2001 Jeff Leise, OF – 2002 Jed Morris, C – 2002 Alex Gordon, 3B – 2004, 2005

Second-team Don Brown, IF – 1955 Bob Churchich, IF – 1966 Bob Munson, OF – 1973 Paul Meyers, OF – 1985 Troy Brohawn, UTIL – 1993 Shane Komine, P – 2000–02 Dan Johnson, 1B – 2001 John Cole, OF – 2001 Matt Hopper, 1B – 2003 Aaron Marsden, P – 2003 Luke Gorsett, OF – 2006 Cody Asche, 3B – 2011 Jake Hohensee – 2018 Max Anderson, 2B – 2023

Third-team Bob Diers, OF – 1951 Jerry Dunn, OF – 1952 Ray Novak, P – 1952 Fred Seger, IF – 1954 Bill Giles, 1B – 1955 Stan Bahnsen, P – 1965 Dan Boever, OF – 1983 Mike Duncan, 1B – 1985 Bill McGuire, C – 1985 Kevin Jordan, 2B – 1990 Troy Brohawn, P – 1993 Marc Sagmoen, OF – 1993 Todd Sears, 1B – 1997 Justin Cowan, C – 2000 Matt Hopper, DH/1B – 2000, 2003 John Cole, OF – 2001 Shane Komine, SP – 2002 Jed Morris, C – 2002 Aaron Marsden, P – 2003 Joba Chamberlain, P – 2005 Johnny Dorn, P – 2005, 2008 Ryan Wehrle, SS – 2006 Tony Watson, P – 2006 Michael Pritchard, DH – 2012 Chance Sinclair, P – 2014 Jake Meyers, UTIL – 2017 Scott Schreiber, 1B – 2018 Brice Matthews, SS – 2023

First-team Freshman Bobby Benjamin, OF – 1988 Darin Petersen, SS – 1992 Todd Sears, 1B – 1995 Shane Komine, P – 1999 Matt Hopper, DH – 2000 Jamie Rodrigue, P – 2000 Alex Gordon, 3B – 2003 Tim Schoeninger, P – 2003 Johnny Dorn, P – 2005 Tony Watson, P – 2005 Kyle Kubat, P – 2012 Pat Kelly, 2B – 2012 Chad Luensmann, P – 2016 Colby Gomes, P – 2019 Leighton Banjoff, DH – 2020 Max Anderson, 3B – 2021

Academic All-Americans

• CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year

Jeff Leise – 2002, 2003

CoSIDA Academic All-Americans

First-team Eric Mumm, OF – 1999 John Cole, OF – 2001 Jeff Leise, OF – 2002, 2003 Aaron Marsden, P – 2003 Brandon Buckman, 1B – 2006 D.J. Belfonte, OF – 2010

Second-team Gene Stohs, OF – 1970, 1972 Adrian Fiala, C – 1970 Steve Achelpohl, OF – 1972 Steve Oakley, OF – 1980 Matt Schuldt, P – 1998 Jeff Leise, OF – 2001 Shane Komine, P – 2002 Daniel Bruce, OF – 2005 Casey Hauptman, P – 2011

Third-team Todd Oakes, P – 1983 Mark Kister, C – 1985 Ryan Boldt, OF – 2015, 2016

Conference Awards

Big Eight Player of the Year Darin Erstad – 1995 Big 12 Player of the Year Jed Morris – 2002 Matt Hopper –2003 Alex Gordon – 2004, 2005

Big 12 Pitcher of the Year Shane Komine – 2000, 2001 Aaron Marsden – 2003

Big 12 Coach of the Year Dave Van Horn – 2001 Mike Anderson – 2003, 2005 Big Ten Coach of the Year Darin Erstad – 2017

Big 12 Freshman of the Year Shane Komine – 1999 Matt Hopper – 2000 Johnny Dorn – 2005 Big Ten Freshman of the Year Chad Luensmann – 2016

All-Big Eight

First-team Larry Lewis, OF – 1958 Gene Torczon, OF – 1958 Jim Kane, C – 1958 Dwight Siebler, P – 1958 Ken Ruisinger, 1B – 1959 Steve Smith, OF – 1962 Don Purcell, C – 1962 Stan Bahnsen, P – 1965 Bob Brand, 1B – 1966 Bob Churchich, 3B – 1966 Alex Walter, OF – 1966 Gary Neibauer, P – 1966 Sam Sharpe, 2B – 1972 Gene Stohs, OF – 1972 Bob Munson, OF – 1973 Paul Haas, OF – 1977 Steve McManaman, DH – 1977 Joe Scherger, OF – 1979, 1980 Jeff Hunter, 3B – 1980 Tim Burke, P – 1980 Chris Chavez, SS – 1981 Roger Hill, CF – 1981, 1982 Steve Stanicek, 1B – 1982 Anthony Kelley, P – 1982

Dan Boever, 1B – 1983 Bill McGuire, C/RP – 1984, 1985 Scott Hooper, 3B – 1984 Mike Duncan, 1B – 1984 Larry Mims, SS – 1985 Paul Meyers, OF – 1985, 1986 Phil Harrison, P – 1986 Ken Ramos, OF – 1988 Jeff Taylor, 1B – 1988 Pat Leinen, P – 1988 Bobby Benjamin, 1B – 1990 Kevin Jordan, UTIL – 1990 Dave Matranga, P – 1990, 1991 Bill Vosik, 3B – 1991 Jeff Murphy, C – 1992 Steve Boyd, P – 1993 Troy Brohawn, DH/SP – 1993 Marc Sagmoen, OF – 1993 Derek Dukart, 3B – 1994 Darin Erstad, OF – 1994, 1995 Mike Bellows, P – 1994 Alvie Shepherd, DH – 1995 Jonas Armenta, P – 1995

Second-team Kirk Eymann, P – 1977 Joe Scherger, OF – 1977, 1978 Dan Dixon, OF – 1978 Tim Burke, P – 1979 Stan Haas, OF – 1980 Cliff Faust, P – 1980 Larry Mims, 2B – 1986 Ron Crowe, 3B – 1987 Todd Bunge, OF – 1987 Steve Spurgeon, P – 1987 Bobby Benjamin, OF – 1988 Joe Federico, DH – 1988 Ken Ramos, OF – 1989 Doug Twitty, UTIL – 1989 Bill Vosik, 3B – 1990 Shawn Buchanan, OF – 1990 Brian McArn, OF – 1991 Mike Zajeski, P – 1991 Brian Martin, P – 1993 Sean McKenna, C – 1993 Troy Brohawn, P – 1994 Bob Courter, P – 1995 Jed Dalton, 3B – 1995 Mel Motley, OF – 1995 Darin Petersen, SS – 1995 Craig Sanders, P – 1995 Francis Collins, OF – 1996 Spencer Van Linge, P – 1996

All-Big 12

First-team Todd Sears, UTIL – 1997 Francis Collins, OF – 1997 Ken Harvey, 1B – 1999 Justin Cowan, C – 2000 Shane Komine, P – 2000, 2001 Matt Hopper, DH – 2000, 2001 Dan Johnson, 1B – 2000, 2001 John Cole, OF/2B – 2001 Thom Ott, P – 2001 Jeff Leise, OF – 2002 Aaron Marsden, P – 2002, 2003 Jed Morris, C – 2002 Matt Hopper, 1B – 2003 Curtis Ledbetter, DH/1B – 2003, 2005 Quinton Robertson, P – 2003 Alex Gordon, 3B – 2004, 2005 Johnny Dorn, P – 2005, 2008 Joba Chamberlain, P – 2005 Brandon Buckman, 1B – 2006 Ryan Wehrle, SS – 2006 Luke Gorsett, OF – 2006 Tony Watson, P – 2006 Brett Jensen, P – 2006 Jake Opitz, 2B – 2008 Mitch Abeita, C – 2008 Adam Bailey, OF – 2010 Cody Asche, 3B – 2011

Second-team Ken Harvey, DH – 1998 Adam Stern, OF – 2000 Jeff Leise, OF – 2001, 2003 Jed Morris, C – 2001 Zach Kroenke, P – 2004, 2005 Jake Mullinax, 2B – 2004 Justin Pekarek, P – 2004 Joe Simokaitis, SS – 2005 Daniel Bruce, OF – 2005 Brett Jensen, P – 2005 Andrew Brown, UTIL – 2006 Johnny Dorn, P – 2006 Jeff Tezak, DH – 2007 Tony Watson, P – 2007 Thad Weber, P – 2008 DJ Belfonte, OF – 2010 Casey Hauptman, P – 2011

All-Big Ten

First-team Chad Christensen, SS – 2012, 2013 Rich Sanguinetti, OF – 2012 Michael Pritchard, DH/OF – 2012, 2014 Pat Kelly, 2B – 2013, 2014 Chance Sinclair, P – 2014 Scott Schreiber, 1B/DH – 2016, 2017 Jake Meyers, UTIL – 2017

Second-team Josh Scheffert, 3B – 2012 Michael Pritchard, DH – 2013 Christian DeLeon, P – 2014 Blake Headley, 1B – 2014 Ryan Boldt, OF – 2015, 2016 Tanner Lubach, C – 2015 Chance Sinclair, P – 2015 Chad Luensmann, P – 2016 Steven Reveles, SS – 2016 Scott Schreiber, 1B – 2018 Jesse Wilkening, C – 2018 Cam Chick, DH – 2019 Aaron Palensky, OF – 2019

Third-team Richard Stock, 1B – 2012 Pat Kelly, 2B – 2012 Kyle Kubat, P – 2012 Blake Headley, 3B – 2013 Kash Kalkowski, 1B – 2013 Rich Sanguinetti, OF – 2013 Zach Hirsch, P – 2014 Josh Roeder, P – 2015 Jake Meyers, OF – 2016 Ben Miller, DH – 2016 Angelo Altavilla, SS – 2017 Jake Hohensee, P – 2017

See also

• College baseball awards
• Nebraska Cornhuskers academic honors and awards