Before we get into the national awards Florida State athletes received this spring, it’s notable that the football and baseball teams achieved the highest multi-year Academic Progress Rate in program history in the most recent update. FSU athletics had a collective spring GPA of 3.463 and 83% of FSU’s athletes had a GPA of 3.0 or better.
National Awards
Shortstop Alexis Lodise was awarded the Dick Howser award as the top baseball player in the nation, and Maribel Ting and Luke Clanton swept the player of the year awards in women’s and men’s golf. A junior shortstop, Lodise is the third Seminole to win the award, which is named in honor of FSU graduate Dick Howser, for whom the FSU stadium is named. Seminole outfielder J.D. Drew (1997) and catcher Buster Posey (2008) also won the award. Howser played shortstop at FSU from 1955 to 1958, taking FSU to its first-ever College World Series appearance, and served as head coach in 1979. Lodise displayed an uncommon combination of skills in the field (.977 fielding percentage), was 6-for-6 in stolen bases, and at the plate he was ranked 9th in hits (95), 11th in total bases (170), 12th in hits per game (1.64). The ACC Player of the Year and ACC Defensive Player of the Year was the first player in baseball history, college or pro, to complete the cycle (single, double, triple, homerun in the same game) when he hit a walk-off grand slam to beat rival Florida in his hometown of Jacksonville on March 25.
It’s rare to have even one player receive the national player of the year award in golf. However, Florida State’s Maribel Ting won the award for women, and the Seminoles’ Luke Clanton received the Ben Hogan Award as the top collegiate golfer for the men. Ting is only the second female Florida State player to win the National Golfer of the Year Award presented by Golfweek. All-American Frida Kinhult earned the award in 2019. Likewise, Clanton is also only the second Seminole to win the award for the men, joining John Pak, who won in 2021.Ting finished 2025 as the No. 1 collegiate golfer as ranked by Scoreboard and has been ranked as the No. 2 golfer in the world as chosen by the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) since April 2, 2025. Clanton is the No. 1 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Both Ting and Clanton were runner’s up at the NCAA Championship. 
Jerry Kutz
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