New Mexico’s Karsen Waslefsky has been named to the Watch List for the College Baseball Foundation’s Brooks Wallace Award, the organization announced Wednesday morning.
The award honors the nation's top shortstop and will be presented by the College Baseball Foundation later this year. It is named for former Texas Tech shortstop Brooks Wallace, who played for the Red Raiders from 1977 to 1980. Wallace died of leukemia at the age of 27.
Waslefsky, a senior for the 12-1 Lobos, was one of 100 shortstops selected to the Watch List.
Starting 11 games for the Lobos at shortstop so far this season, Waslefsky still holds a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage with 27 assists and 16 putouts on 43 opportunities. He’s turned three double plays so far this year.
At the plate, Waslefsky is batting .275 on the year with three doubles, two homers, and nine RBI.
“Our staff is excited to get another year started looking for that special player to represent Brooks' Award,“ said Larry Wallace, co-chair of the Brooks Wallace Award. “We will dig deep to find the personal qualities as well as the physical attributes that best exemplify what we look for in the Brooks Wallace Award winner. It's early but this list is already shaping up to be a competitive race with some big numbers from some new guys and some familiar faces on the list as well.”