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Charlotte, FAU, and ODU Players Selected to Baseball Preseason All-American Teams

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Charlotte 3B Austin Knight leads a trio of Conference USA players selected to 2022 Perfect Game/Rawlings Preseason College All-American teams, the publication announced. Knight was a first team selection, while Old Dominion 2B Carter Trice earned second team distinction and Florida Atlantic 1B Nolan Schanuel was named to the third team. The teams were selected based on a combination of factors including statistics from 2021, prospect status, 2022 expectations, and ranking relative to their draft status.

Knight earned his All-American status by hitting .342 with a nation-leading 29 doubles in 2021. He drove in 63 runs to lead the team and sat 14th in all of Division I baseball. He was one of two Niners with double-digit home runs and led the Green and Gold with 80 hits and 59 runs scored. Knight recorded a team-best 21 multi-hit games and 15 multi-RBI games, driving in at least three runs in a total of nine contests.

Trice, Conference USA's 2021 Freshman of the Year, led the team and ranked third in the conference with a .355 batting average last season. Additionally, Trice was second in C-USA and 23rd in Division I with 83 hits, and his 14 home runs were good for fourth in the conference. Trice played in 58 of ODU's 60 games last season and started every game in which he played. He helped lead the Monarchs to a 44-16 overall record, their first conference championship in 20 years and the first No. 1 seed in a regional in program history.

Schanuel had a fantastic true freshman campaign for the Owls, ranking at the top of the Conference USA leaderboard in nearly every hitting category. He led the Owls, and finished ninth in C-USA and just outside the top 50 in all of Division I, with 56 RBI and was second on the team with a .343 average, which ranked 10th in the league. Schanuel ranked eighth in C-USA with 54 runs and a .444 OBP, 10th in slugging at .576, 12th with 68 hits and 13th with 11 home runs. Additionally, he hit .409 with runners in scoring position (27-for-66 with six HR and 49 RBI) and had 24 multi-hit games.