Arkansas outfielder Cayden Wallace picked up a significant postseason honor Monday.
A native of Greenbrier, Wallace was named a first team Freshman All-American by Perfect Game. He was one of six SEC players on the first team.
Arkansas has had 24 Freshman All-Americans in its history. The Razorbacks have had at least one Freshman All-American each year since 2017, and Arkansas has had 11 players earn that distinction in the past 11 seasons.
Wallace, who had a team-high 67 hits, played in and started 60 of the Razorbacks’ 63 games in 2021 and finished fourth on the team with 44 RBI and a .279 batting average. His 14 home runs tied the school’s freshman record previously set by Heston Kjerstad in 2018.
With his home run in Arkansas’ season-ending loss to North Carolina State, Wallace broke a tie with Christian Franklin and Matt Goodheart to tie Brady Slavens for second on the team in that category.
Wallace is the fourth Razorback to be named an All-American in the last week. Relief pitcher Kevin Kopps earned first-team honors by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, starting pitcher Patrick Wicklander was voted to the second team and outfielder Christian Franklin was voted to the third team.
Arkansas Freshman All-Americans
Jeff King, 3B, 1984
Phillip Stidham, RHP, 1989
Matt Carnes, RHP, 1995
Matt Erickson, 3B, 1995
Brian Kirby, OF, 1998
Charlie Isaacson, RHP, 1999
Jake Dugger, OF, 2004
Danny Hamblin, DH, 2004
Nick Schmidt, LHP, 2005
Shaun Seibert, RHP, 2005
James Ewing, 2B, 2006
Brett Eibner, OF/RHP, 2008
Zack Cox, 3B, 2009
Barrett Astin, RHP, 2011
Dominic Ficociello, INF, 2011
Nolan Sanburn, RHP, 2011
Tyler Spoon, OF, 2013
Keaton McKinney, RHP, 2015
Dominic Fletcher, CF, 2017
Heston Kjerstad, OF, 2018
Casey Martin, INF, 2018
Connor Noland, RHP, 2019
Robert Moore, 2B, 2020
Cayden Wallace, OF, 2021