Cooper Berry of Pomona-Pitzer Colleges and
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges duo
Bryce Didrickson and
Alex Henderson have been named First Team Academic All-America by the College Sports Communicators. Another Sagehen,
Kai Gonzaga, was named to the Third Team.
Berry's All-American nods are the latest in a growing list of individual accolades for the 2026 season, including
D3baseball.com and ABCA/Rawlings First Team All-Region and First Team All-SCIAC. The Austin, Texas, native was also named SCIAC Tournament MVP and
D3baseball.com Team of the Week on Apr. 8 and May 6.
Berry led the Sagehens with a .393 batting average, slashing .393/.528/.785 and recording 61 RBI, 17 home runs, 13 doubles and 60 runs scored. He posted a season-high eight RBI with two doubles in a win over La Verne on Apr. 28. Playing third base, he also totaled 65 assists and 27 putouts with a .939 fielding percentage.
Henderson adds his first-team honor to a second-team All-America selection from D3baseball.com, while also earning Region X Player of the Year distinction in both votes. Didrickson joined Henderson on the first-team All-SCIAC list, as well as on the first-team All-Region X squad from the NABC.
Henderson batted .407 with 22 homers and 69 RBI for the Stags, setting a new program record for home runs in a season, and also a new CMS career record with 41 after only two years. He also added to his remarkable postseason resume with three two-homer games, two in the SCIAC Tournament and one in the rubber game of the Super Regionals against Johns Hopkins.
Didrickson set the CMS record for hits in a season with 84, and led the Stags with a .418 batting average and a .506 on-base percentage. He hit 11 home runs from his leadoff spot in the batting order, and was a perfect 9-9 stealing bases. He had a 16-game hitting streak that carried into the Super Regionals, and was only snapped when he walked four times and scored three runs in the Stags' 10-9 win over Johns Hopkins.
A Porter Ranch, California native, Gonzaga slashed .366/.509/.714 on the year with 69 RBI, 15 home runs, 14 doubles and one triple. He scored 63 runs, stole 13 bases and drew 42 walks. Gonzaga drove in a season-high five RBI twice, including on May 16 in an NCAA Regionals win over Pfeiffer.
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