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Daniel Earns National Pitcher of the Week Honors
4/29/2025 1:13:00 PM | Baseball
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Roch Cholowsky (UCLA), Max Knight (Missouri State), Colin Daniel (UAB) earned weekly honors from the College Baseball Foundation (CBF) for their respective performances last week, it was announced on Tuesday.
Cholowsky earned the Brooks Wallace Award Player of the Week while Knight was named the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Week. Daniel was selected as the National Pitcher of the Week.
Daniel tossed a complete-game shutout, scattering three hits over nine innings while striking out 13 batters in a 3-0 win over Rice on Friday. The right-hander didn't walk a batter and closed out the Owls on 108 pitches to earn the victory. Daniel faced 28 hitters and had a strike percentage of 73.1%. He finished off the game in style striking out the side in the top of the ninth inning for his fifth victory of the season.
The Pitcher of the Year award, college baseball's version of the Cy Young Award which was created in 2009, is given annually to the nation's top collegiate pitcher.
2025 National Pitcher(s) of the Year Weekly Award Honorees
2/25 – Colton Book, LHP, Redshirt Junior, Saint Joseph's University, Manheim, Pennsylvania
3/4 – Haden Dow, LHP, Graduate, Southeast Missouri State University, St. John, New Brunswick
3/11 – Blake Gillespie, RHP, Junior, Charlotte 49ers, Clermont, Georgia & Drew Horn, RHP, RS-Sophomore, Middle Tennessee University, Smyrna, Tennessee
3/18 – Marcus Phillips, RHP, Junior, University of Tennessee, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
3/25 - Carson Lane, RHP, Sophomore, UNLV, Huntington Beach, California
4/1 – Curtis Hebert, RHP/IF, Junior, University of Portland, Anchorage, Alaska
4/8 – Kade Anderson, LHP, Sophomore, LSU, Madisonville, Louisiana
4/15 - Lyndon Glidewell, RHP, Junior, Austin Peay, Temecula, California
4/22 - Ryder Brooks, LHP, Redshirt-Sophomore, UC Irvine, Fountain Valley, California & Trevor Hansen, RHP, Sophomore, UC Irvine, Simi Valley, California
4/29 - Colin Daniel, RHP, Junior, UAB, Corner, Alabama
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The CBF presents the Brooks Wallace Award (Nation's Most Outstanding Shortstop), the National Pitcher of the Year, the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year, the Skip Bertman National Coach of the Year, the George H.W. Bush Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the Wayne Graham Award for Teaching Excellence Award.
About the College Baseball Hall of Fame
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