BATON ROUGE, La. – Twelve members of LSU’s 2026 baseball team have been named to the First-Year Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
The First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2025-26 academic calendar. First-year student-athletes at a university may be named to the Honor Roll at the conclusion of their first full academic year in residence.
The LSU honorees and their academic majors are:
• LHP Jonah Aase, Sport Administration
• INF/OF Mason Braun, Sport Administration
• RHP Dax Dathe, Sport Administration
• LHP Santiago Garcia, Interdisciplinary Studies
• RHP Cooper Moore, Sport Administration
• RHP Marcos Paz, Interdisciplinary Studies
• RHP Reagan Ricken, Sport Administration
• INF Jack Ruckert, Political Science
• C/DH Omar Serna Jr., Sport Administration
• INF Brayden Simpson, Graduate Student
• RHP Zion Theophilus, Sport Administration
• 1B Zach Yorke, Interdisciplinary Studies
A total of 25 members (66 percent) of LSU’s 2025 roster received either SEC Academic Honor Roll or First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll recognition.
Any student-athlete who participates in a Southeastern Conference championship sport or a student-athlete who participates in a sport listed on his/her institution’s NCAA Sports Sponsorship Form is eligible for nomination to the Academic Honor Roll.
The following criteria are followed:
(1) An undergraduate student-athlete must have a grade point average of 3.00 or above for either the preceding academic year (two semesters or three quarters) or have a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution. A graduate student-athlete must have a grade point average of 3.0 or above for either the preceding academic year (two semesters or three quarters) of graduate school enrollment or have a cumulative graduate school grade point average of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution. Undergraduate grade point average may not be included in the graduate point average calculation for a graduate student.
(2) If a student-athlete attends summer school, his/her grade point average during the summer academic term must be included in the calculation used to determine eligibility for the Academic Honor Roll.
(3) Student-athletes eligible for the Honor Roll include those receiving an athletics scholarship, recipients of an athletics award (i.e., letter winner), and non-scholarship student-athletes who have been on a varsity team for two seasons.
(4) An undergraduate student-athlete must have successfully completed 24 semester or 36 quarter hours of non-remedial academic credit toward a baccalaureate degree at the nominating institution. A graduate student-athlete must have successfully completed 18 semester or 27 quarter hours of academic credit toward a graduate degree at the nominating institution.
(5) The student-athlete must have been a member of a varsity team for the sport’s entire NCAA Championship segment.