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Fletcher And Morris Named NCBWA First Team Freshmen All-Americas

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Freshmen Brian Fletcher and Hunter Morris were each named First Team Freshmen All-Americans today by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. It marks the second time in as many weeks that the duo was honored as Freshman All-Americans as Auburn was the only school in the country to have a pair of players on the NCBWA’s First Team.


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Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama, USA. With more than 23,000 students and 1,200 faculty, it is the largest university in the state, and according to U.S. News & World Report, has a selectivity rating of "more selective." Auburn was chartered on February 1, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The college was donated to the state of Alabama in 1872, when it became the state's public land-grant university under the Morrill Act and was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, the college became the first four-year coeducational school in the state. The college was renamed the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) in 1899. In 1960, its name was officially changed to Auburn University, as it had long been popularly known. Auburn is one of only 13 American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research center.

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