Grand Canyon Antelopes baseball

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Grand Canyon Antelopes
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Founded1953
Overall record499–542–2
University Grand Canyon University
Head coach Gregg Wallis (3rd season)
Conference Western Athletic Conference
Location Phoenix, Arizona
Home stadium Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark
(Capacity: 4,000)
Nickname Lopes
ColorsPurple, black, and white [1]
     
NCAA Tournament appearances
2021, 2022, 2024
Conference tournament champions
2021
Regular season conference champions
2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024
Conference division champions
1998, 2022

The Grand Canyon Antelopes baseball team represents Grand Canyon University, which is located in Phoenix, Arizona. The Antelopes, also known as the Lopes, are an NCAA Division I college baseball program competing in the Western Athletic Conference. They were in Division I from 1991 to 1998, the final four seasons in the WAC, and returned in 2014 with the WAC.

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GCU plays all home games on campus at Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark. Over its 16 discontinuous seasons in the WAC, GCU has won six regular-season titles including five of the last six completed seasons.

In 2024, GCU was recognized as the No. 52 ranked college baseball program in the nation by D1Baseball. [2]

Since the program's inception in 1953, 16 Lopes have gone on to play Major League Baseball, highlighted by 1993 AL Rookie of the Year and 2002 World Series champion Tim Salmon and 2023 sixth overall pick Jacob Wilson.

History

Founding

Dr. Dave Brazell founded Grand Canyon's baseball program and it began play in 1953. [3] The team lost its first game to Phoenix College on March 23, 1953. The team won its first game against Eastern Arizona College on March 27, 1954. [4]

NAIA Championships

The Lopes won four NAIA National Championships in the 1980s: 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1986. [5]

Andy Stankiewicz (2012-22)

GCU hired Andy Stankiewicz on April 25, 2011. [6]

Stankiewicz led the program in its final two seasons at the Division II level, the duration of the four-year transition period to the Division I level, and to the school's first two NCAA Division I tournament appearances.

In his first season, Stankiewicz inherited a team with a losing record and went 27-23 in his first season. In his second season in 2013, Stankiewicz led the Lopes to the D-II College World Series for the first time.[ citation needed ]

The Lopes found immediate success in 2014, their first back at the D-I level. GCU finished second in the WAC standings. [7]

GCU won its first outright WAC regular-season championship in 2015. [8] The Lopes won the 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022 WAC regular-season titles under Stankiewicz. [9]

Stankiewicz led GCU to its first WAC Tournament Championship in 2021 and first trip to the NCAA tournament. [10]

Despite entering the 2022 WAC Tournament as the No. 1 seed, Grand Canyon went 2-2 to get eliminated from the tournament. Carried by a strong regular-season campaign and a No. 50 RPI, the Lopes earned their first at-large selection into the NCAA tournament. [11]

Stankiewicz was announced as USC's head coach on July 3, 2022, ending an 11-year run leading the program. [12]

Gregg Wallis (since 2023)

A nine-year assistant coach under Stankiewicz, Wallis had departed GCU following the 2022 season to take an assistant coach position on Bill Mosiello's staff at Ohio State. [13] GCU brought Wallis back to be its head coach, making the official announcement on July 8, 2022. [14]

Wallis continued GCU's streak of WAC regular-season success by winning championships in 2023 and 2024. GCU did not win the WAC Tournament in either season.

The Lopes advanced to the 2024 NCAA tournament after Tarleton State — ineligible for NCAA postseason as a transitioning school — went on to win the conference tournament. [15] GCU took advantage of its second life, winning its first D-I NCAA tournament game in program history by defeating Arizona 9-4 on May 31 in front of the largest crowd in Hi Corbett Field history. [16] The Lopes took it a step further, recovering from a June 1 loss to West Virginia by defeating Dallas Baptist to advance to the regional final. [17] GCU lost to West Virginia again to end the Lopes' most successful postseason run at the D-I level. [18]

Conference membership history

Grand Canyon's baseball program has a unique conference membership history that includes a brief stint from 1991–1998 where the program was Division I in baseball but the rest of the university's athletic department was Division II.

Grand Canyon conference membership timeline [19]
SeasonsClassificationConference
1953–1960none
1961–1967 NAIA Independent (associate member)
1968–1990NAIAIndependent (full member)
1991–1994NCAA Division IIndependent
1995–1998NCAA Division I Western Athletic Conference
1999–2004NCAA Division II California Collegiate Athletic Association
2005–2009NCAA Division IIIndependent
2010–2013NCAA Division II Pacific West Conference
2014–2025NCAA Division IWestern Athletic Conference
2027– [a] NCAA Division I Mountain West Conference
  1. ↑ GCU announced it will "join no later than July 1, 2026, but possibly as early as the second quarter of 2025 if permitted under the conference's bylaws." [19] [20]

NAIA era

Grand Canyon's first athletic affiliation came in 1961 as an associate member of the NAIA. They became full members of the NAIA for the 1968 season, opening postseason participation opportunities.

Baseball's Division I jump

The school opted to move out of the NAIA and into the NCAA in the late 1980s, primarily due to the cost burden of traveling to postseason competition and increasingly stringent NAIA rules. [19] Most of the school's athletic programs landed at the NCAA Division II level, however, baseball opted to go Division I as an independent. The baseball program played its first four D-I years as an independent.

In June 1994, GCU accepted a baseball-only invite to the Western Athletic Conference in the form of a year-to-year affiliate membership agreement. [21] The Lopes began play in the conference in 1995 and spent four seasons in the conference. GCU's membership was not renewed following the 1998 season, and the university decided to reclassify the program to D-II. [22] Already knowing it would not be a D-I program the following season, the 1998 team won the program's first D-I regular-season conference title by going 16-14 in WAC play to win the North Division. [23] [24]

Division II membership

When the WAC ended its affiliate membership arrangement, GCU opted to move to D-II rather than remaining a D-I team as an independent. The Lopes spent one year transitioning in 1999, officially classified as a D-I program but largely playing D-II schools. GCU officially joined the California Collegiate Athletic Association in 2000.

GCU announced an intent to return to NAIA in May 2003. [25] This hit a snag in April 2004, after the school's dire financial situation led the institution to turn to a for-profit model. NAIA bylaws did not allow such institutions, and GCU was forced to remain in the NCAA despite already withdrawing from the CCAA. [26] The program was forced to be a D-II independent while the university searched for financial stability and a conference home.

GCU's athletic department moved to the Pacific West Conference beginning in the 2006-07 academic year, however the conference did not sponsor baseball as an official sport until 2010. [27] [28]

Return to D-I

With exploding enrollment and financial stability, GCU announced an all-sport jump to D-I athletics in November 2012. [29] The baseball team would return to the WAC beginning in the 2014 season.

On May 10, 2024, GCU announced most of its sports would transition to the West Coast Conference in time for the 2026 baseball season. [30] On November 1, 2024, GCU announced it had accepted an invite from the Mountain West Conference to join no later than the 2027 baseball season. [31]

Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark

Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark is a baseball stadium on the Grand Canyon campus in Phoenix, Arizona that seats 4,000 people. While the field has remained in place since 1962, a new stadium was constructed around the playing surface. [32] It was opened on February 16, 2018 with a 2–1 loss to TCU. [33] A record attendance of 5,281 was set on February 16, 2024, an opening day win over Georgetown. [34]

Head coaches

In a program that has existed since 1953, Grand Canyon has had extreme continuity in its head coaching position. David Brazell founded the program and coached it for its first 28 years. Gil Stafford coached for 20 years including the program's first run at the Division I level. Alumnus and former Major leaguer Dave Stapleton coached the team for 10 years. Andy Stankiewicz took over for the 2012 season and led the program through its first nine seasons back at the Division I level beginning in 2014. His longtime assistant, Gregg Wallis, took over for Stankiewicz in the 2023 season. [35]

SeasonCoachYearsRecordPct.
1991–1998Gil Stafford8188–324–1.367
2014–2022 Andy Stankiewicz 9274–197–1.582
2023–present Gregg Wallis 273-46.613
Totals3 coaches19 seasons535–567–2.486

Year-by-year NCAA Division I results

Records taken from the 2020 GCU baseball media guide. [36]

Statistics overview
SeasonCoachOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Independent (1991–1994)
1991 Gil Stafford 25–39
1992 Gil Stafford 25–37
1993 Gil Stafford 24–32
1994 Gil Stafford 29–33–1
Western Athletic Conference (1995–1998)
1995 Gil Stafford 21–4115–155th
1996 Gil Stafford 23–3210–1910th
1997 Gil Stafford 13–435–2512th
1998 Gil Stafford 28–2716–145thWAC Tournament
Western Athletic Conference (2014–present)
2014 Andy Stankiewicz 30–2319–82ndineligible
2015 Andy Stankiewicz 32–2219–71stineligible
2016 Andy Stankiewicz 25–28–113–145thineligible
2017 Andy Stankiewicz 29–2520–41stineligible
2018 Andy Stankiewicz 33–2419–51st WAC tournament
2019 Andy Stankiewicz 36–2418–9T-4th WAC tournament
2020 Andy Stankiewicz 9–9Season cancelled on March 18
due to Coronavirus pandemic [37]
2021 Andy Stankiewicz 39–21-129-7T-1st NCAA tournament
2022 Andy Stankiewicz 41-2125-51st NCAA tournament
2023 Gregg Wallis 37-2122-71st WAC tournament
2024 Gregg Wallis 36-2523-71st NCAA Tournament
Total:499–442–3

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

NCAA tournament history (Division I only)

YearRecordPctNotes
2021 0–2.000Clinched berth by winning 2021 WAC baseball tournament

Eliminated by Oklahoma State in the Tucson Regional

2022 0–2.000Earned at-large bid

Eliminated by Missouri State in the Stillwater Regional

2024 2–2.500Clinched berth by winning 2024 WAC Regular-Season Championship

Eliminated by West Virginia in the Tucson Regional Final

Total2–6.250Total NCAA tournament Appearances: 3

Awards and honors (Division I only)

All-Americans

YearPositionNameSelector
2023SSJacob Wilson CB

Freshman All-Americans

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Pierson Ohl playing for the Wichita Wind Surge
YearPositionNameSelector
2019SPPierson Ohl CB
20211BElijah Buries CB
20211BElijah Buries PG
20213B Jacob Wilson CB
2021SPCarter Young CB
2021SPCarter YoungD1
2021SPCarter YoungNCBWA
2022SPDaniel AvitiaCB
2022SPDaniel AvitiaPG

Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year

YearPositionName
2017OFGarrison Schwartz
2018OFQuin Cotton
2024OFTyler Wilson

Western Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year

YearPositionName
2021SPPierson Ohl
2022SPDaniel Avitia

Western Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year

YearPositionName
2023SSJacob Wilson

Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year

YearName
2017 Andy Stankiewicz
2018Andy Stankiewicz
2021Andy Stankiewicz
2022Andy Stankiewicz
2023 Gregg Wallis
2024Gregg Wallis

Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year

YearPositionName
2015OFGarrison Schwartz
2019SPPierson Ohl
2022SPDaniel Avitia

Taken from the 2020 GCU baseball media guide. [36] Updated March 2, 2020.

Lopes in professional baseball

Draft history

As of 2023, Grand Canyon has had 106 of its players selected in the MLB draft. Thirty-one of those selections have occurred since 2015 when the program returned to Division I. [38]

On July 9, 2023, Jacob Wilson became the highest drafted player in program history when he went sixth overall to the Oakland Athletics. [39]

Major Leaguers

= All-Star= Baseball Hall of Famer
AthleteYears in MLBMLB Teams
Frank Snook 1973San Diego Padres
Tom Tellmann 1979–80, 1983–85San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics
Dave Stapleton 1987–88Milwaukee Brewers
Brad Moore 1988, 1990Philadelphia Phillies
Randy McCament 1989–90San Francisco Giants
Kevin Wickander 1989–90, 1992–93, 1995–96Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers
John Patterson 1992–95San Francisco Giants
Chad Curtis 1992–01California Angels, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers
Tim Salmon 1992–04, 2006California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels
Brett Merriman 1993–94Minnesota Twins
Paul Swingle 1993California Angels
Steve Phoenix 1994–95Oakland Athletics
Cody Ransom 2001–04, 2007–13San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs
Brian Broderick 2011Washington Nationals
Jake Wong 2023Cincinnati Reds
Jacob Wilson 2024Oakland Athletics

Taken from the 2024 GCU baseball media guide. [36] Updated May 22, 2024.

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