BW Outstanding Senior Athlete

The Kenneth F. Steingass Outstanding Senior Athlete Award is presented each spring to the most outstanding male athlete in Baldwin Wallace University’s senior class.

Twenty Yellow Jackets baseball players have been recognized as BW’s Outstanding Senior Athlete since the honor was first bestowed in 1949.

  • 1952 — Frank Birsa
  • 1953 — Jim Rodriguez
  • 1954 — Dick Miller
  • 1962 — Angelo Rodriguez
  • 1963 — Jerry Schrock
  • 1965 — Jerry Roberts
  • 1970 — Michael Blake
  • 1974 — Thomas Mental
  • 1978 — Paul Ernst
  • 1984 — Tom Bilski
  • 1987 — Robert Rodriguez
  • 1989 — Erik Young
  • 1999 — Geoff Helmlinger
  • 1998 — Max Newill
  • 1996 — Joel Nichols
  • 2003 — Pat Shannon
  • 2009 — Cody Kidd
  • 2015 — Kyle Chontos
  • 2017 — Cole Nieto
  • 2022 — Alex Ludwick