Brooks Wallace Award

The Brooks Wallace Award is an award given by the College Baseball Foundation (CBF) to the best college baseball shortstop of the year.^[1] 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.^[2]

Brooks Wallace Award

Logo for the Brooks Wallace Award
Awarded for	Best shortstop in college baseball
Country	United States
Presented by	College Baseball Foundation
History
First award	2004
Most recent	Roch Cholowsky, UCLA
Website	Brooks Wallace Award

Winners

Kurt Suzuki won the inaugural Brooks Wallace Award

Key

Year	Links to the article about the corresponding baseball year
Player	Name of the player
Position	The player's position at the time he won the award[a]
School	The player's college when he won the award
Class	The player's year in college when he won the award
Italics	Player was the first overall MLB draft pick in the same year
^	Player won the Rookie of the Year Award[b]
§	Player also won the Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy, and/or Johnny Bench Award in the same year

Winners

Year	Player	Position	School	Class	Ref
2004	Kurt Suzuki§	C	Cal State Fullerton	Junior	[4]
2005	Alex Gordon§	3B	Nebraska		[5]
2006	Brad Lincoln§	P	Houston		[6]
2007	David Price§	P	Vanderbilt		[7]
2008	Buster Posey§^	C	Florida State		[8]
2009	Ben Orloff	SS	UC Irvine	Senior	[9]
2010	Jedd Gyorko		West Virginia	Junior	[10]
2011	Brad Miller		Clemson		[11]
2012	Zach Vincej		Pepperdine		[12]
2013	Alex Bregman		LSU	Freshman	[13]
2014	Trea Turner		North Carolina State	Junior	[14]
2015	Dansby Swanson		Vanderbilt		[15]
2016	Sheldon Neuse		Oklahoma		[16]
2017	Logan Warmoth		North Carolina		[17]
2018	Cadyn Grenier		Oregon State		[18]
2019	Grae Kessinger		Ole Miss		[19]
2021	Cal Conley		Texas Tech	Freshman	[20]
2022	Brooks Lee		Cal Poly	Sophomore	[21]
2023	Matt Shaw		Maryland	Junior	[22]
2024	Griff O'Ferrall		Virginia		[23]
2025	Roch Cholowsky		UCLA	Sophomore

See also

• Baseball portal

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

Notes

1. This does not necessarily reflect the player's future position at Major League level. For example, Alex Gordon was originally a third baseman, but subsequently moved to left field in 2010.^[3]
2. Won either in the same year or several years later.