UCLA baseball has placed three players on the D1Baseball Preseason All-America teams ahead of the 2026 season. Junior shortstop Roch Cholowsky was named to the First Team, while junior first baseman Mulivai Levu and junior third baseman Roman Martin were selected for the Third Team.
The selections come after a notable 2025 season for the Bruins, who returned to the Men’s College World Series for the first time since 2013. The team finished with a 48–18 record and shared the Big Ten regular-season title in its first year in the conference.
Cholowsky’s performance last season was one of the most decorated in UCLA history. He became both Big Ten Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, marking the first time a Bruin has won both awards in a single season. He is also UCLA’s first conference player of the year since 1998. On a national level, Cholowsky became both the first Bruin and first sophomore to win the Brooks Wallace Award as top shortstop, received an ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove, and was named Perfect Game’s National Player of the Year.
Statistically, Cholowsky led all Division I players with a 6.49 WAR. He recorded a .353 batting average, .480 on-base percentage, .710 slugging percentage, 23 home runs, and 74 RBIs. His OPS (1.261) and slugging (.761) led the Big Ten Conference. The 23 home runs are also a program high since 2000. He scored 80 runs—one short of UCLA’s single-season record—and his total bases (179) are second-most for UCLA during the Super Regional era.
Levu earned Third Team honors following a strong season that included Second Team All-Big Ten recognition and ranking second nationally with 85 RBIs. He batted .320 with 12 home runs and started every game for UCLA last year. Defensively, he made only one error in 569 chances at first base and received an ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove.
Martin also secured Third Team status after starting 65 games at third base as a sophomore. He hit .316 with nine home runs, drove in 61 runs, scored 60 times, and had 119 total bases. Martin set a new school record for hit-by-pitches in a single season with 21 before it was surpassed later that year.
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