The Brooks Wallace Award is an award given by the College Baseball Foundation (CBF) to the best college baseball shortstop of the year.Brooks Wallace Award, College Baseball Foundation. Retrieved October 5, 2009. The award has been given annually since 2004. Until 2008 the award was presented to the nation's most outstanding player; however, in 2009 the recipient list was changed to only include shortstops. It is named after former Texas Tech shortstop and assistant coach Brooks Wallace, who died of cancer in 1985 at the age of 27.

Winners

+KeyYearLinks to the article about the corresponding baseball yearPlayerName of the playerPositionThe player's position at the time he won the awardSchoolThe player's college when he won the awardClassThe player's year in college when he won the awardItalicsPlayer was the first overall MLB draft pick in the same year^Player won the Rookie of the Year Award§Player also won the Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy, and/or Johnny Bench Award in the same year

+WinnersYearPlayerPositionSchoolClassRef 2004 C Cal State Fullerton 2005 3B Nebraska Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search 2006 P Houston 2007 P Vanderbilt 2008 C Florida State The Albany Herald - Google News Archive Search 2009 SS UC Irvine 2010 West Virginia 2011 Clemson 2012 Pepperdine 2013 LSU 2014 North Carolina State 2015 Vanderbilt 2016 Oklahoma http://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/article87114882.html 2017 North Carolina 2018 Oregon State 2019 Ole Miss 2021 Texas Tech 2022Cal Poly 2023Maryland2024Virginia2025UCLA 2026Nebraska

See also

List of college baseball awards Baseball awards#U.S. college baseball College Baseball Hall of Fame

Notes

References

External links College Baseball Foundation (CBF) official website. CBF College Baseball Awards Show official webpage. 2009 College Baseball Foundation Awards Show MLB.com; MLB Advanced Media, L.P.