Banks and Gideon Earn Baseball America Preseason All-America Honors
Feb 01, 2016 | Baseball
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M juniors Nick Banks and Ronnie Gideon were named to the Baseball America 2016 Preseason All-America Teams released on Monday.
Banks was named a second-team outfielder and Gideon was tabbed a third-team infielder.
Banks earned All-America honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association (third team) and D1Baseball.com (third team) as a sophomore. The Tomball, Texas native also garnered All-SEC Second Team status in 2015. He batted .364 with 51 runs, 11 doubles, three triples, eight home runs, 48 RBI and nine stolen bases as a sophomore.
Gideon played in 44 games as a sophomore. He batted .294 with a .522 slugging percentage, 19 runs, seven home runs and 41 RBI. In 21 SEC games, he hit .349 with four doubles, one home run and 17 RBI. For his career, he owns a .275 batting average in 65 games with 14 doubles, eight home runs and 48 RBI.
Banks and Mark Ecker were named to the Louisville Slugger Preseason All-America released by Collegiate Baseball in December. Banks and Ryan Hendrix garnered D1Baseball.com Preseason All-America recognition in January.
Texas A&M is coming off a 2015 campaign in which they finished 50-14, the highest win total for the Aggies since 1999. They extended their school-record string of consecutive NCAA Championship appearances to nine seasons and claimed their seventh overall NCAA Regional title. The Maroon and White started the 2015 season with an SEC-record 24-game win streak.
Rob Childress' Aggies begin the 2016 season on February 19 as they host the Hofstra Pride in a three-game series on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.
Banks was named a second-team outfielder and Gideon was tabbed a third-team infielder.
Banks earned All-America honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association (third team) and D1Baseball.com (third team) as a sophomore. The Tomball, Texas native also garnered All-SEC Second Team status in 2015. He batted .364 with 51 runs, 11 doubles, three triples, eight home runs, 48 RBI and nine stolen bases as a sophomore.
Gideon played in 44 games as a sophomore. He batted .294 with a .522 slugging percentage, 19 runs, seven home runs and 41 RBI. In 21 SEC games, he hit .349 with four doubles, one home run and 17 RBI. For his career, he owns a .275 batting average in 65 games with 14 doubles, eight home runs and 48 RBI.
Banks and Mark Ecker were named to the Louisville Slugger Preseason All-America released by Collegiate Baseball in December. Banks and Ryan Hendrix garnered D1Baseball.com Preseason All-America recognition in January.
Texas A&M is coming off a 2015 campaign in which they finished 50-14, the highest win total for the Aggies since 1999. They extended their school-record string of consecutive NCAA Championship appearances to nine seasons and claimed their seventh overall NCAA Regional title. The Maroon and White started the 2015 season with an SEC-record 24-game win streak.
Rob Childress' Aggies begin the 2016 season on February 19 as they host the Hofstra Pride in a three-game series on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.
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