DURHAM, N.C. – Duke baseball signees Jordan Walker and Collin Bosley-Smith both earned 2020 Gatorade State Baseball Player of the Year honors, announced earlier today. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field.
The Blue Devils are one of seven schools nationally to have multiple signees win Gatorade State Baseball Player of the Year awards, while serving as one of three ACC schools--Clemson and Virginia--to boast multiple winners.
Walker, who was tabbed the Georgia Baseball Player of the Year, batted .