ABCA/Rawlings – Indiana State baseball's Grant Magill was named the 2023 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division I Gold Glove winner at catcher as announced by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Rawlings Sporting Goods on Wednesday afternoon.
 
Magill receives the honor for the first time in his collegiate career after a standout 2023 season. The Highlands Ranch, Colo. native becomes just the second Sycamore in program history to receive the prestigious Gold Glove award joining alum Ryan Stausborger (outfielder) who received the award from the ABCA back in the 2010 season.
 
Magill's Gold Glove Award highlights a season in which he became the third Sycamore to claim the MVC's Defensive Player of the Year award joining Tyler Wampler (2014) and Jake Means (2019). The redshirt junior catcher single-handedly shut down the opponent running game in the 2023 season and coined the phrase "You do not run on Grant Magill" on the ISU social media platforms.
 
The term was uttered 19 times in the 2023 season as Magill led the MVC with 19 runners caught stealing while adding five pickoffs. MVC teams only attempted 11 stolen bases against the Sycamores in the 2023 regular season with Magill nabbing six of them. Overall, Magill allowed just 21 stolen bases over 40 attempts on the year.
 
ISU allowed just two stolen bases over the last 20 games of the regular season. Over the same stretch, Magill threw out four runners to keep teams moving from station to station on the base paths. Magill threw out seven runners over an 11-game span from April 4 – 23 and added two runners caught stealing at Memphis back on March 10.
 
Magill continued to hold the opposition at bay in the postseason including throwing out two runners in the Super Regional opening game at TCU.
 
He is a two-time MVC All-Defensive selection at catcher and headlines an ISU defense that sits third in the NCAA in team fielding defense at 0.983 in the 2023 season.
 
The Gold Glove Winners were voted on and selected by the ABCA NCAA Div. I All-America committee, which is chaired by Tommy Raffo of Arkansas State University. Four of the finalists reached the 2023 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
 
The ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove teams were first recognized in 2007 and are presented annually to the top defensive players from each division of collegiate and high school baseball.
 
Founded in 1945, the American Baseball Coaches Association is the primary professional organization for baseball coaches at the amateur level. Its over 15,000 members represent all 50 states and 40 countries. Since its initial meeting of 27 college baseball coaches in June 1945, Association membership has broadened to include nine divisions: NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA, Pacific Association Division, High School, Youth and Travel.
 
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