Wake Forest Athletics
Lowder Named All-American by Collegiate Baseball
6/8/2022 10:00:00 AM | Baseball
Lowder, the 2022 ACC Pitcher of the Year, earns the first All-American honor of his career after a historic sophomore campaign.
TUCSON, Ariz. - Wake Forest baseball's Rhett Lowder was named a Second-Team All-American by Collegiate Baseball.
Lowder received the first All-American honor of his career after recording his best collegiate season in 2022 and joins teammate Brendan Tinsman on the newspaper's All-American list.
The national honor gets added to a long list of accolades for Lowder for his historic campaign. The Albemarle, N.C. native has been tabbed the 2022 Pitcher of the Year (the first in Wake Forest history), a First Team All-ACC selection and a finalist for the 2022 Pitcher of the Year Award (the first in Wake Forest history).
Lowder became just the fifth pitcher in program history and the first since 2002 to reach 11 victories in a season following Wake Forest's 16-3 victory over Miami in the ACC Tournament.
Currently, Lowder is just one of six pitchers in the entire nation with at least 11 wins this season.
In addition to leading the conference in victories, Lowder ranks second in innings pitched, third in ERA and third in strikeouts. He is the only hurler in the ACC to rank in the top three of each category.
The Albemarle, N.C. native's 105 strikeouts this season rank 10th all time in Wake Forest history.
Lowder also ranks in the top 10 in WHIP (sixth) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (ninth) in the conference.
In conference play, the sophomore held the lowest ERA (2.60) and pitched the most innings (65.2) in addition to the second-most victories (six) and fourth-most Ks (63).
In 11 of his 16 starts this season, Lowder pitched at least six innings while allowing three runs or less in 15 appearances. Additionally, Lowder walked one or less batters in nine starts.
The sophomore earned ACC and Perfect Game Pitcher of the Week honors after Lowder tossed the first complete game by a Demon Deacon since 2017 on just 87 pitches on May 19, striking out six batters while allowing just five hits and no walks to open Wake Forest's first series sweep over NC State in Raleigh.
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