Lincoln - On Wednesday morning the College Baseball Foundation named Nebraska's Spencer Schwellenbach as the 2021 recipient of the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award.
The award was started in 2010 and Schwellenbach is the first Husker to be honored with the trophy. Former Husker Jake Meyers was a finalist for the award in 2017, but lost to three-time winner Brendan McKay from Louisville.
The award is named for the former Washington State standout who achieved success both as a first baseman and left-handed pitcher during the late 1980s and who was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007.