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UF's Aidan King, Brendan Lawson named Freshman All-Americans

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

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A pair of Florida Gators rookie phenoms, right-handed pitcher Aidan King and first baseman Brendan Lawson, received Freshman All-American honors this week. UF now has 47 total in school history.

King was named a First Team Freshman All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) and Perfect Game. Lawson earned Second Team Freshman All-American status from Perfect Game at first base.
 
King is Florida’s first Freshman All-American since Cade Kurland and Cade Fisher earned First Team honors back in 2023. King becomes the 31st First Team Freshman All-American in school history and UF’s 21st under Kevin O’Sullivan.
 
King led Florida with a 2.58 ERA, .213 batting average against, 73 1/3 innings pitched and five quality starts. The true freshman posted 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. He 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 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, NCBWA

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