GREENWOOD, Ind. — The Santa Clara University baseball team had five student-athletes named Academic All-District Tuesday by the College Sports Communicators organization for the second year in a row.
 
Junior first baseman Will Anderson, junior right-handed starting pitcher Max Bayles, graduate right-handed relief pitcher Josh Johnson, senior infielder Thomas Ferroggiaro and senior catcher Johnny Luetzow all earned the Academic All-District distinction Tuesday. Bayles and Luetzow were selected to be placed on the Academic All-American ballot. It marked the second year in a row for Ferroggiaro and Luetzow, who also earned All-District honors in 2025. Ferroggiaro and Luetzow landed on the West Coast Conference All-Academic First Team on May 18, while Bayles and Johnson earned honorable mention recognition.
 
The CSC selection process requires student-athletes to have at minimum a 3.50 cumulative Grade Point Average. Athletically, they must have played in 90% or more of the team's contests, started at least 66% of them, or for pitchers – appeared in 17 games or throw 35 innings. The Academic All-America voting for Bayles, Luetzow and other candidates selected to the ballot begins Tuesday and runs through June 9, with the first, second and third-team honorees to be announced on June 23. Former Bronco Dylan Joyce was named a first team Academic All-American in 2025, the SCU athletics department's first such honor in 18 years and the baseball program's first since 1988. Santa Clara has had four Academic All-Americans in the past collecting a total of five awards.
 
Anderson carried a 3.925 Grade Point Average as a communication major in his first year with the Broncos. The Ohlone College transfer was the lone Bronco to play in all 54 games this season, tying for the team lead with 16 doubles and finishing second with 59 hits, 33 RBIs and 17 multi-hit games. Anderson batted .303 on the year, scored 19 runs, drew 12 walks and stole four bases while logging eight multi-RBI games.
 
Bayles carried a 3.563 GPA as a junior communication major. He ranked second in the WCC with 104 strikeouts and a 2.54 ERA, and totaled 11 games with at least six strikeouts. That included a season- and career-high-matching 12 on May 14 versus Pepperdine. Bayles didn't allow a run in four starts and allowed only one earned run in four others. He was named WCC Pitcher of the Week three times, and was also named a semifinalist for the College Baseball Foundation's National Pitcher of the Year award. Bayles was placed on the WCC Preseason Team, named the WCC Preseason Pitcher of the Year by D1Baseball.com, selected to the Perfect Game WCC Preseason Team and ranked the No. 29 starting pitcher in the nation by D1Baseball.com through 12 weeks.
 
Ferroggiaro, a senior economics major with a 3.874 GPA, was named WCC Player of the Week on Feb. 16 and finished the year ranked eighth in the WCC with 48 runs scored and 11th with 33 walks. He scored multiple runs in 16 games, including a career-high four on two occasions, and drew multiple walks six times. He also had 10 multi-hit games this season and finished the campaign on a 13-game reached-base streak. During that stretch, Ferroggiaro scored 20 runs, collected 13 RBIs, hit four home runs and seven doubles, and posted five multi-hit games.
 
Johnson earned the honor as a graduate student in the sports business master's program with a 3.762 GPA. He ranked second on the team with 20 appearances, all in relief, and struck out 36 batters in 28 2/3 innings. Johnson recorded multiple strikeouts in 11 appearances and didn't allow an earned run in 13 games, including a streak of nine consecutive games to start the year. He opened the season with a 0.55 ERA through his first 12 outings and finished with a 2-1 record, 3.45 ERA and one save.
 
Luetzow, a senior finance major with a 3.941 GPA, was Santa Clara's everyday catcher and slashed .333/.420/.500 across 39 games, with 44 hits, 25 RBIs, 10 doubles and four home runs. Luetzow reached base safely in 16 consecutive games from March 24 through April 19 and put together a seven-game hitting streak from April 2-12, going 11 for 23 (.478) against San Diego, Clemson and Saint Mary's. He logged 11 multi-hit games, including six three-hit performances.