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Grand Canyon Antelopes
Grand Canyon Antelopes
2024 Grand Canyon Antelopes baseball team
Founded	1953
Overall record	499–542–2
University	Grand Canyon University
Head coach	Gregg Wallis (2nd season)
Conference	Western Athletic Conference; West Division
Location	Phoenix, Arizona
Home stadium	Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark ; (Capacity: 5,500)
Nickname	Lopes
Colors	Purple, black, and white;
NCAA Tournament appearances
	2021, 2022
Conference tournament champions
	2021
Regular season conference champions
	2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023
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 with the Western Athletic Conference, and returned in 2014 with the WAC.

The Grand Canyon Antelopes play all home games on campus at Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark. Over their 16 discontinuous seasons in the Western Athletic Conference, GCU has won six regular-season titles including five of the last six completed seasons.

Since the program's inception in 1953, 10 Lopes have gone on to play in Major League Baseball, highlighted by 1993 AL Rookie of the Year and 2002 World Series champion Tim Salmon.

Conference membership history (Division I only)

1991–1994: Independent
1995–1998: Western Athletic Conference
2014–present: Western Athletic Conference

Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark

Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark is a baseball stadium on the Grand Canyon campus in Phoenix, Arizona that seats 4,000 people. It was opened on February 16, 2018 with a 2–1 loss to TCU. A record attendance of 5,261 was set on February 18, 2022, an opening day loss to Nevada.^[2]

Head coaches (Division I only)

Records taken from the 2020 GCU baseball media guide.^[3]

Season	Coach	Years	Record	Pct.
1991–1998	Gil Stafford	8	188–324–1	.367
2014–2022	Andy Stankiewicz	9	274–197–1	.582
2023–present	Gregg Wallis	1	37-21	.638
Totals	3 coaches	18 seasons	499–542–2	.479

Year-by-year NCAA Division I results

Records taken from the 2020 GCU baseball media guide.^[3]

Statistics overview
Season	Coach	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Independent (1991–1994)
1991	Gil Stafford	25–39
1992	Gil Stafford	25–37
1993	Gil Stafford	24–32
1994	Gil Stafford	29–33–1
Western Athletic Conference (1995–1998)
1995	Gil Stafford	21–41	15–15	5th
1996	Gil Stafford	23–32	10–19	10th
1997	Gil Stafford	13–43	5–25	12th
1998	Gil Stafford	28–27	16–14	5th	WAC Tournament
Western Athletic Conference (2014–present)
2014	Andy Stankiewicz	30–23	19–8	2nd	ineligible
2015	Andy Stankiewicz	32–22	19–7	1st	ineligible
2016	Andy Stankiewicz	25–28–1	13–14	5th	ineligible
2017	Andy Stankiewicz	29–25	20–4	1st	ineligible
2018	Andy Stankiewicz	33–24	19–5	1st	WAC tournament
2019	Andy Stankiewicz	36–24	18–9	T-4th	WAC tournament
2020	Andy Stankiewicz	9–9			Season cancelled on March 18 due to Coronavirus pandemic^[4]
2021	Andy Stankiewicz	39–21-1	29-7	T-1st	NCAA tournament
2022	Andy Stankiewicz	41-21	25-5	1st	NCAA tournament
2023	Gregg Wallis	37-21	22-7	1st	WAC tournament
Total:		499–442–3
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

Awards and honors (Division I only)

Over their 11 discontinuous seasons in the Western Athletic Conference, 18 different Lopes have been named to the all-conference first-team.

All-Americans

Year	Position	Name	Selector
2023	SS	Jacob Wilson	CB

Freshman All-Americans

Year	Position	Name	Selector
2019	SP	Pierson Ohl	CB
2021	1B	Elijah Buries	CB
2021	1B	Elijah Buries	PG
2021	3B	Jacob Wilson	CB
2021	SP	Carter Young	CB
2021	SP	Carter Young	D1
2021	SP	Carter Young	NCBWA
2022	SP	Daniel Avitia	CB
2022	SP	Daniel Avitia	PG

Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year

Year	Position	Name
2017	OF	Garrison Schwartz
2018	OF	Quin Cotton

Western Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year

Year	Position	Name
2021	SP	Pierson Ohl
2022	SP	Daniel Avitia

Western Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year

Year	Position	Name
2023	SS	Jacob Wilson

Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year

Year	Name
2017	Andy Stankiewicz
2018	Andy Stankiewicz
2021	Andy Stankiewicz
2022	Andy Stankiewicz
2023	Gregg Wallis

Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year

Year	Position	Name
2015	OF	Garrison Schwartz
2019	SP	Pierson Ohl
2022	SP	Daniel Avitia

Taken from the 2020 GCU baseball media guide.^[3] Updated March 2, 2020.

Lopes in the Major Leagues

= All-Star

= Baseball Hall of Famer

Athlete	Years in MLB	MLB Teams
Frank Snook	1973	San Diego Padres
Tom Tellmann	1979–1980, 1983–1985	San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics
Randy McCament	1989–1990	San Francisco Giants
Kevin Wickander	1989–1990, 1992–1993, 1995–1996	Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers
John Patterson	1992–1995	San Francisco Giants
Chad Curtis	1992–2001	California Angels, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers
Tim Salmon	1992–2004, 2006	California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels
Brett Merriman	1993–1994	Minnesota Twins
Paul Swingle	1993	California Angels
Cody Ransom	2001–2004, 2007–2013	San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs