The NCAA DII baseball season is quickly approaching. As opening day nears, the reigning, consensus DII player of the year Haydn McGeary and teammate Spencer Bramwell joined the DII Nation Podcast.
McGeary and Bramwell are part of a Colorado Mesa baseball program that has gone 202-51 over the past five years, including the 18-game, shortened 2020 season. The Mavericks have reached Cary, N.C. for the DII baseball championship twice over that span. This year, Colorado Mesa enters the 2022 season at No. 3 in the NCAA.com preseason Power 10 rankings.
McGeary is arguably the best hitter in DII baseball after hitting .481 with 20 home runs and just 20 strikeouts. Bramwell has been brilliant in handling pitching different pitching staffs and swings a steady bat as well, hitting over .350 last season.
The two join myself and Bethany Bowman to talk about that Colorado Mesa culture, the pitching staff and hitting approaches. Take a listen at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor or Google Podcasts, or you can watch on YouTube.
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Wayne: Greetings from the Midwest! I read some of your blog content on Division II sports through NCAA.com and wanted to share news of my recently published sports history book with you – “Gorillas, Gators and Greyhounds: The NCAA Division II Nickname and Mascot Menagerie” hit the Amazon Books marketplace over the Labor Day weekend! Like its D-3 predecessor, this collection includes fascinating stories about athletic nicknames and mascots – this time from all 300-plus NCAA Division II colleges and universities, along with nearly 100 photos of mascots, graphic images and logos from across the division. It is the second installment of my “Nicknames and Mascots” series, following the D3 book in 2021. Here’s the Amazon link if you have time to give it a look – https://a.co/d/2Qe6p2p.
Best regards – Chris Pio / Cedar Rapids IA
Wayne,
Love what you do. Just recently introduced to you as the S&T Miners, where my son plays, have enter the national picture. With that said, haha always a but, and this is minor. How does one go about getting the faktor team to use S&T’s logo instead of Missouri State? I’m a stat geek and that was literally the first thing I noticed. Regards