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2 Florida Gators named Freshman All-Americans by D1Baseball

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Florida pitcher Aidan King. (Photo by @GatorsBB/UAA Communications)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Gators placed a pair of players on the 2025 Freshman All-America Teams from D1Baseball. UF starting right-hander pitcher Aidan King was named to the first team and infielder Brendan Lawson made the second team.

King becomes a unanimous first team Freshman All-American with top honors from all four major media outlets (D1Baseball, Baseball America, NCBWA, Perfect Game). Meanwhile, Lawson collected his third total Freshman All-America nod of the offseason.

King led Florida with a 2.58 ERA, .213 batting average against, 73 1/3 innings pitched and five quality starts. He recorded the lowest ERA by a Gator across a full season since Brady Singer in 2018 (2.55) while posting a 7-2 record, 1.11 WHIP, 9.7 strikeouts per nine and 3.4 strikeout-to-walk ratio. King fanned 79 batters against 23 walks and gave just three home runs.
 
King set a program record with four SEC weekly honors in 2025 and was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. In his final five starts of the year, he went 3-1 with a 0.94 ERA, .192 BAA and 29-to-10 K-to-BB ratio over 28 2/3 innings pitched. King allowed one earned run or fewer in all five outings.

Making the All-SEC All-Freshman Team along with King, Lawson started 60 of 61 games while hitting .317/.417/.522 for a .939 OPS and playing first, second and third base. He ranked second on the Gators with 61 RBI and totaled 10 homers, one triple, 14 doubles, 48 runs and eight steals. Lawson also finished second on the team in multi-RBI games (15) and multi-hit games (23).

Florida Gators 2025 All-America Honors

3B Bobby Boser – Third Team All-American (Baseball America)
RHP Aidan King – First Team Freshman All-American (Baseball America, D1Baseball, NCBWA, Perfect Game)
INF Brendan Lawson – First Team Freshman All-American (Baseball America), Second Team Freshman All-American (D1Baseball, Perfect Game)

UF First Team Freshman All-Americans (31)

1991 Ron Scott, CB
1991 Marc Valdes, BA, CB
1995 Chuck Hazzard, CB
1996 Brad Wilkerson, BA, CB
1998 Jason Dill, CB
2000 Joey Simon, CB
2004 Adam Davis, CB
2004 Matt LaPorta, BA
2005 Stephen Locke, CB
2007 Cole Figueroa, BA, CB
2008 Josh Adams, BA, CB
2009 Preston Tucker, BA, CB, NCBWA
2010 Nolan Fontana, BA, CB
2010 Brian Johnson, BA, CB
2010 Austin Maddox, BA, CB, NCBWA
2010 Hudson Randall, BA, CB
2010 Mike Zunino, BA
2011 Karsten Whitson, BA, CB, NCBWA
2014 Logan Shore, BA, CB
2015 Dalton Guthrie, CB
2015 Mike Rivera, CB
2015 JJ Schwarz, BA, CB, D1, NCBWA
2016 Jonathan India, BA, CB, D1, NCBWA, PG
2018 Jordan Butler, CB
2020 Hunter Barco, CB
2020 Nathan Hickey, CB
2020 Tyler Nesbitt, CB
2022 Blake Purnell, NCBWA
2023 Cade Kurland, BA, CB, D1B, PG
2023 Cade Fisher, PG
2025 Aidan King, D1B, BA, NCBWA, PG

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