AUSTIN, Texas -- Three Mid-American Conference baseball student-athletes were named Academic All-Americans, as announced by the College Sports Communicators today. Miami's Evan Appelwick earned a second team nod, while Bowling Green's Garrett Wright and Ball State's Dylan Grego landed on the third team.
Appelwick is the first RedHawk to be named an Academic All-American since Tom Yost in 1999. Appelwick, a redshirt junior from Madison, S.D., is a Finance major with a 3.65 GPA. He started in all 58 of Miami's games and finished the season with career-highs in batting average (.322), fielding percentage (.995), hits (69), home runs (21), RBI (74), runs (65), on-base percentage (.458), slugging percentage (.673), stolen bases (3) and walks (53). His 74 RBI set a new single-season record and his 21 home runs are tied for the most in program history. Appelwick now stands at eighth all-time in career RBI (141) and tied for fourth in career home runs (38) for Miami.
Wright had an accolade-filled 2025 season for the Orange and Brown, being named the MAC Defensive Player of the Year, First-Team All-MAC, All-MAC Defensive Team and CSC Academic All-District. He also broke three program records during the season, setting the single-season doubles mark with 20, the single-season hit-by-pitch mark with 28 and the career hit-by-pitch total with 49.
Playing in and starting 54 of BGSU's 55 games, the most of anyone on the team, Wright reached base in 52 of his 54 games of action. He finished the season with a .406 batting average, the only player in the MAC to hit above .400, finishing fifth in program history for single-season batting average. He added to those marks by posting a .513 on-base percentage, the only player in the MAC with an OBP north of .500. He also tallied 82 hits, tied for fifth in program history, scored 60 runs, ninth in program history, and totaled 134 bases, 10th in program history.
Grego is Ball State's first Academic All-America selection since Chase Sebby was voted to the First Team in 2020 by the CSC.
The honor adds on to the junior shortstop's list of accolades from the 2025 season including First Team All-MAC and All-Defensive Team, First Team All-Region and Third Team All-America by the American Baseball Coaches Association, and a semifinalist for the Brooks Wallace Award for the nation's top collegiate shortstop.
Grego started in all 58 games and finished with the third-most hits in a single season in program history (91). The Kansas City, Mo., native slashed .376/.429/.624 in 242 at bats and tallied 14 doubles, two triples and 14 home runs for 55 RBI. Grego stole 15 bases and scored 58 runs while leading the team in batting average, hits, OPS, at bats, total bases and slugging percentage.
