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Grego Voted Third Team Academic All-America by the CSC
July 01, 2025 | Baseball
CSC Press Release
Dylan Grego has been voted Third Team Academic All-America by the College Sports Communicators, the CSC announced Tuesday.
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.
"Another great honor for Dylan Grego," Ball State head coach Rich Maloney said. "Dylan embodies all that is good at Ball State Baseball – excellent student and great player. He worked his way from a young inexperienced player getting limited playing time into a dynamic player.
"Dylan got it done on the field and in the classroom. A special young man who is a true representative of a student-athlete. What a great honor for a talented person."
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.
Grego hit a walk-off home run in the series finale against Western Michigan on March 11 to clinch a sweep of the Broncos and had a three-homer, nine-RBI performance in a slugfest at Bowling Green on April 18 for Ball State's first individual with nine RBI in a game since 2017.
Academically, Grego is a business administration major with a 3.55 cumulative GPA and also received Academic All-District and Academic All-MAC recognitions.
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Dylan Grego has been voted Third Team Academic All-America by the College Sports Communicators, the CSC announced Tuesday.
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.
"Another great honor for Dylan Grego," Ball State head coach Rich Maloney said. "Dylan embodies all that is good at Ball State Baseball – excellent student and great player. He worked his way from a young inexperienced player getting limited playing time into a dynamic player.
"Dylan got it done on the field and in the classroom. A special young man who is a true representative of a student-athlete. What a great honor for a talented person."
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.
Grego hit a walk-off home run in the series finale against Western Michigan on March 11 to clinch a sweep of the Broncos and had a three-homer, nine-RBI performance in a slugfest at Bowling Green on April 18 for Ball State's first individual with nine RBI in a game since 2017.
Academically, Grego is a business administration major with a 3.55 cumulative GPA and also received Academic All-District and Academic All-MAC recognitions.
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