ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Illinois State baseball's fifth-year junior Jake McCaw was named the Missouri Valley Conference's Scholar-Athlete of the Year, joining third-year sophomore Ryan Cermak and fifth-year senior Colin Wyman as First-Team honorees, as announced by the conference office on Tuesday morning.
Three First-Team honorees is tied for the most in the conference and McCaw is the first Redbird in program history to be named MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (award began in 2020). Illinois State has had at least one First-Team honoree each year since 2009 and multiple First-Team honorees in five-straight seasons.