With the 2025 college baseball season peeking over the horizon and the hype building for a nationally acclaimed Virginia Cavaliers program, it’s time to take a deeper look into the pieces head coach Brian O’Connor has assembled in Charlottesville, starting with the returning position players.
C Jacob Ference
There are ballers at every level. This guy proved that last year. Ference went to back-to-back national championships with Division III Salisbury and won a title in 2021 before transferring to Virginia prior to the 2024 season. With 31 of his 37 career home runs coming over his last two seasons, Ference, now a graduate student, was recognized as a D1Baseball.