The Northwestern Wildcats baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

Evanston, Illinois Evanston ( ) is a city, suburb of Chicago. Located in Cook County, Illinois, United States, it is situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan. Evanston is north of Downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, Wil ...

, United States. The team competes in the

National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...

's Division I and are members of the

Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...

. The Wildcats have been to 1 NCAA tournament in 1957. In 2017, the Wildcats made it to the Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament Championship.

Stadiums

Rocky and Berenice Miller Park

Rocky and Berenice Miller Park is a

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...

. It is the home stadium of the Northwestern University Wildcats college baseball team since 1943. The stadium is named after

J. Roscoe Miller James Roscoe Miller (October 26, 1905 – October 16, 1977) was the twelfth president of Northwestern University, serving between 1949 and 1970. During his tenure, Northwestern substantially increased the size of its Evanston campus, constructing ...

, an Northwestern President from 1949 to 1970 and his wife. In 2013, Miller's daughter, Roxy and her husband Richard Pepper, donated the money to renovate the stadium.

Head coaches

NCAA tournament

Player awards

First-team All-Americans

The following is a listing of the selections listed in the 2018 Northwestern Baseball Media Guide on nusports.com. *1979 :Bill Dierberger –

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(ABCA) *1985 :

Joe Girardi Joseph Elliott Girardi (born October 14, 1964) is an American former professional baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). Girardi played the catcher position for the Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, New York Yankees, and St. ...

Mark Loretta Mark David Loretta (born August 14, 1971) is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1995 and 2009 for the Milwaukee Brewers, Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox, ...

(SS) – ABCA *2000 :Jeremy Kurella (SS) – ABCA

Big Ten award winners

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(1993) * Pitcher of the Year :Chad Schroeder (1995) :Dan Brauer (2006) * Freshman of the Year Award :Keith Batchelder (1997) :

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(2008)

References

External links

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