Davis, Calif. - After putting together one of the best debut seasons by an Aggie recent history, Mark Wolbert was named the Big West Freshman Field Player of the Year and All-Big West First Team the conference announced on Thursday. 

Wolbert is the second Aggie in the Division I era to win Freshman of the Year and the first to earn first team honors since Tanner Murray in 2019. Murray was Freshman Field Player of the Year in 2018. 

Wolbert led the Big West in average during the conference schedule, batting .410 and .351 on the season with the latter ranking fifth in the Big West. He was one of just seven players to post an OPS over 1.000 during the conference slate with a 1.060 OPS. He also led the Big West in hits during the conference schedule with 48 over 30 games and had the third-most total bases in that span. 

He went on a 13-game hit streak during April that saw his average climb as high as .370, a stretch that included back-to-back four hit games. Wolbert had 16 multi-hit games and led UC Davis in nearly every offensive statistical category. He committed just one error in 103 chances in the field, starting 39 of 41 games and was the Aggies' everyday center fielder for the majority of the season.