SEC baseball awards: First-, second-team selections, all-defensive team for 2024 season

Tennessee baseball was among the most-represented teams of the SEC baseball awards for the 2024 season, as announced by the league on Monday.

While the Vols were well-represented among the first- and second-team selections, it was Georgia first baseman Charlie Condon who won SEC Player of the Year. Arkansas' Hagen Smith was named Pitcher of the Year and Kentucky’s Nick Mingione was voted the SEC Coach of the Year.

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Condon led the nation with his .451 batting average, to go along with 35 home runs, the second-most in SEC history and a Georgia baseball record. The Marietta, Georgia native won SEC weekly honors three times this season and enters the SEC Baseball Tournament on a 24-game hitting streak.

Smith has 349 career strikeouts, which is the Arkansas school record. He is just five shy of the Razorbacks' single-season record of 155. Smith, from Bullard, Texas, leads the nation with a 1.52 ERA to go along with a 9-0 record and a .135 batting average against.

After starting the season unranked, the Wildcats entered the SEC Tournament as the No. 3 seed and No. 2 overall in the nation, which helped Mingione earn SEC Coach of the Year honors for the second time in his career. He previously won the award in 2017. The Wildcats finished the season as co-conference champions with Tennessee.

Here's the full list of the 2024 SEC Baseball Awards:

2024 SEC baseball awards

• Player of the Year: Charlie Condon, Georgia

• Pitcher of the Year: Hagen Smith, Arkansas

• Freshman of the Year: Gavin Grahovac, Texas A&M

• Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Drew Beam, Tennessee

• Coach of the Year: Nick Mingione, Kentucky

All-SEC first team

• C: Jackson Appel, Texas A&M

• 1B: Jac Caglianone, Florida

• 2B: Christian Moore, Tennessee

• 3B: Charlie Condon, Georgia

• SS: Justin Lebron, Alabama*

• SS: David Mershon, Mississippi State*

• OF: Braden Montgomery, Texas A&M

• OF: Jace LaViolette, Texas A&M

• OF: Dylan Dreiling, Tennessee

• SP: Hagen Smith, Arkansas

• SP: Khal Stephen, Mississippi State

• RP: Evan Aschenbeck, Texas A&M

• DH/UT: Ike Irish, Auburn*

• DH/UT: Nick Lopez, Kentucky*

All-SEC second team

• C: Cole Messina, South Carolina

• 1B: Blake Burke, Tennessee

• 2B: Peyton Stovall, Arkansas

• 3B: Tommy White, LSU

• SS: Wehiwa Aloy, Arkansas

• OF: Kavares Tears, Tennessee

• OF: Ryan Waldschmidt, Kentucky

• OF: Dakota Jordan, Mississippi State

• SP: Ryan Prager, Texas A&M

• SP: Luke Holman, LSU

• RP: Griffin Herring, LSU

• DH/UT: Andrew Fischer, Ole Miss

2024 All-Freshman SEC team

• Gavin Grahovac, Texas A&M

• Gabe Gaeckle, Arkansas

• Justin Lebron, Alabama

• Dean Curley, Tennessee

• Tre Phelps, Georgia

• Caden Sorrell, Texas A&M

• Zane Adams, Alabama

• Steven Milam, LSU

• Ashton Larson, LSU

• Cade Belyeu, Auburn

• Liam Peterson, Florida

• Nolan Souza, Arkansas

SEC All-Defensive team

• C: Fernando Gonzalez, Georgia

• 1B: Blake Burke, Tennessee

• 2B: Emilien Pitre, Kentucky

• 3B: Jared Sprague-Lott, Arkansas*

• 3B: Mitchell Daly, Kentucky*

• SS: Justin Lebron, Alabama

• OF: Braden Montgomery, Texas A&M

• OF: Kavares Tears, Tennessee

• OF: Peyton Holt, Arkansas*

• OF: Jace LaViolette, Texas A&M

• P: Mason Moore, Kentucky

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