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2006 Pre-season Wallace Watch List - National Player of the Year

Discussion in 'The Next Level' started by rjr4dad, Dec 31, 2005.

  1. Dec 31, 2005 at 4:03 PM #1
    rjr4dad

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    Congratulations to Gib Hobson (Jr. P, NC State) and the other guys with ties to North Carolina for making the pre-season 2006 Wallace Watch list for the Brooks Wallace National Player of the Year Award given by the College Baseball Foundation.

    Click here to see the complete list.


    The Wallace Watch will be trimmed to 12 semi-finalists by late May. Then the selection committee will narrow the list to three finalists following the NCAA Super Regionals at a press conference in Omaha. The finalists, their head coaches, and their parents will be invited to Lubbock, TX, for a schedule of special events tied to the award banquet, which will again be nationally televised by Fox Sports Network.


    Dedicated to the memory of former Texas Tech shortstop and assistant coach, Wallace was a slick-fielding shortstop at Texas Tech from 1977 to 1980. A 4-year starter, he was named All-Southwest Conference and All-District Six his senior year when he led the Red Raiders to their first-ever appearance in the Southwest Conference Tournament. After playing two years in the Texas Rangers organization, he returned to Texas Tech and served as a graduate assistant and later as an assistant coach. In the summer of 1984 he was diagnosed with cancer and fought the disease courageously until his death on March 24, 1985, at age 27. The Plano, Texas, native was married to the former Sandy Arnold and they had one daughter, Lindsay Ryan.

    The selection committee for the Wallace Award is comprised of a national panel of preeminent coaches, sports information directors, former winners and beat media who most closely follow the sport. Screening Committee members will evaluate the candidates and will continue their review throughout the entire baseball season. The list will expand and contract during the regular season and additional Wallace Watch candidates may be added as the season progresses. Voting for the three finalists and the Wallace Award winner will be conducted by confidential balloting, with totals tabulated by the J.W.Anderson & Associates accounting firm in Lubbock, Texas.
     
  2. Dec 31, 2005 at 8:54 PM #2
    BB9er

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    2 other NC guys that I recognize...

    on the list are Jeremy Jones - Fayetteville, NC ( NC A&T) and Matt Poulk - Morehead City, NC (UNCW)
    Congratulations to both!
    Please post names of any other NC guys that you might know on that list!
     
  3. Jan 1, 2006 at 3:46 PM #3
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    Way to go Matty!!! What a tremendous honor as you blaze the trail for little brother
     

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