Freshman Brady Christman of Georgia Southern baseball’s 2026 team has been named as a National Collegiate Baseball Writers’ Association (NCBWA) First-Team Freshman All-American member, as announced by the organization this afternoon (June 8th).
The 2026 Sun Belt Freshman of the Year, Christman also was named First-Team All Sun Belt and the Sun Belt All-Freshman team. He became the first Eagle in 14 years to be named conference Freshman of the Year, and the first in the Sun Belt era for Georgia Southern.
As a true freshman, Christman led the Sun Belt in SLG (.719), OBP (.480) and OPS (1.199) while also being second in batting average (.384). He ranks in the top-50 in all of Division I in those four categories. His four triples on the year leads the team and also ties him for second in the Sun Belt, all of which coming in the last 20 days. Along with his 32-game on-base streak, his 23-game hit streak is tied for the second longest by a Sun Belt player this season, and is the fifth-highest in Georgia Southern history.
In just 39 starts for Christman, he has 13 multi-hit games, including five of which in going for three or more base knocks, and 13 multi-RBI games in which he leads the team with. He had multi-hit games that included a homer against both Marshall and Troy earlier this season before homering in back-to-back games at Texas State to start April.
Just a week later, Christman homered in four straight contests, all against conference opponents in the entire South Alabama series and the first contest against ODU. In those two series’, he racked up nine hits and 10 RBIs. Finally, in back-to-back midweeks against Charleston Southern and Mercer, he combined to go a perfect 7-7 with six RBIs, a double, three triples, and two homers. Christman’s twelve homers on the year leads the squad and is the second-most by a freshman in Georgia Southern history.
Christman’s .384 AVG is the second-highest of those named to the Freshman All-American teams, trailing only Akron’s Brady Bowen (.391). He also is the only Sun Belt player to be named to the list, and just one of seven position players from non-Power Four programs.
