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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Nolan Reimold Named All-America by Two Outlets, Signs With Baltimore
June 21, 2005 | Baseball
June 21, 2005
Bowling Green, Ohio -
Aberdeen Ironbirds
National Collegiate Baseball Writers Assoc.
Baseball America
Bowling Green State University's Nolan Reimold (Greenville, Pa.) was named an All-American by both the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (June 14) and Baseball America (June 16) recently. The junior outfielder was named to NCBWA's second team while Baseball America placed Reimold on its third team. Reimold becomes the first Falcon to be recognized by Baseball America and just the second to be named an All-America by two outlets in the same season, joining Kelly Hunt in 2003. Reimold also is the 11th different Falcon player to be named to a postseason All-America team.
Reimold was selected in the second round of the Major League Baseball Amateur draft on June 7 by the Baltimore Orioles. He was taken as the 61st overall pick of the 2005 draft, the highest Falcon position player ever to be drafted and the fourth-highest Falcon ever selected in the 40-year history of the MLB draft. He became the first Falcon ever drafted by the Baltimore Orioles. Reimold recently signed a contract with the Orioles and has been assigned to Class A Aberdeen (Md.) of the New York-Penn League. He will be making his professional debut tonight, wearing No. 33 and starting in right field in the season opener for the Ironbirds vs. the Hudson Valley Renegades (7:35 p.m.).
The 6-4, 205-pound junior was named the 2005 Mid-American Conference Player of the Year on May 25 while earning First-Team All-MAC honors in right field. Reimold ended the season with a .360 batting avg., .770 slugging pct., 20 home runs, 62 RBIs, and .496 on-base pct. His 20 home runs were second-most and his 62 RBIs were third-most by a Falcon in a single season. He was among the nation's leaders in slugging percentage, home runs and runs-batted-in throughout 2005.
Reimold's slugging percentage has come from 30 of his 64 hits this season going for extra bases (20 home runs, 7 doubles, 3 triples). He has also hit for average, finishing second on the BGSU squad with a .360 batting average and is sixth all-time at Bowling Green with a .366 career batting average. Defensively, the junior roamed right field without committing an error in 84 fielding opportunities. In the past two seasons, he committed just one error in over 160 fielding chances. As for his quickness, he hit three triples in each of the last two seasons. He also was 4-for-4 in stolen base attempts this year.
He was named MAC West Player of the Week four times this season after such performances as three home runs vs. Findlay on March 16, a school-record-tying eight RBIs vs. Toledo on May 13, and hitting home runs in four-straight games over the final week of the season. He was also named National Hitter of the Week on March 28 by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
