Grand Canyon Antelopes | |
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2024 Grand Canyon Antelopes baseball team | |
Founded | 1953 |
Overall record | 499–542–2 |
University | Grand Canyon University |
Head coach | Gregg Wallis (3rd season) |
Conference | Western Athletic Conference |
Location | Phoenix, Arizona |
Home stadium | Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark (Capacity: 4,000) |
Nickname | Lopes |
Colors | Purple, black, and white[1] |
NCAA Tournament appearances | |
2021, 2022, 2024 | |
Conference tournament champions | |
2021 | |
Regular season conference champions | |
2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024 | |
Conference division champions | |
1998, 2022 |
The Grand Canyon Antelopes baseball team represents Grand Canyon University, which is located in Phoenix, Arizona. The Antelopes, also known as the Lopes, are an NCAA Division I college baseball program competing in the Western Athletic Conference. They were in Division I from 1991 to 1998, the final four seasons in the WAC, and returned in 2014 with the WAC.
GCU plays all home games on campus at Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark. Over its 16 discontinuous seasons in the WAC, GCU has won six regular-season titles including five of the last six completed seasons.
In 2024, GCU was recognized as the No. 52 ranked college baseball program in the nation by D1Baseball.[2]
Since the program's inception in 1953, 16 Lopes have gone on to play Major League Baseball, highlighted by 1993 AL Rookie of the Year and 2002 World Series champion Tim Salmon and 2023 sixth overall pick Jacob Wilson.
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