Dylan Carey Season 2026

Honors & Awards
• Brooks Wallace Award Winner (2026)
• Third-Team All-American - Perfect Game (2026)
• Second-Team All-Central Region - ABCA/Rawlings (2026)
• Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year (2026)
• First-Team All-Big Ten (2026)
• Big Ten All-Defensive Team (2026)
• Dick Howser Trophy Semifinalist (2026)
• All-Lincoln Regional Team (2026)
• Midseason Third-Team All-American - Perfect Game (2026)
• Brooks Wallace Award Watch List (2025)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2024, 2025, 2026)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2022, 2024; Spring 2023, 2024, 2026)
• Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2023, 2025, 2026)
• Bronze Medallion Recipient (2023)

2026
Won the Brooks Wallace Award, becoming the second Husker all-time to win the award. • Tabbed a third-team All-American by Perfect Game. • Named Big Ten’s Defensive Player of the Year and received first-team All-Big Ten recognition. • Was a Dick Howser Trophy semifinalist and landed on the All-Lincoln Regional Team. • Set program record with 63 career doubles. • Finished career ranked third all-time in program history in at-bats (905), fourth in hits (266), fifth in games played (235), sixth in total bases (439), seventh in hit by pitches (43) and assists (542) and 10th in RBI (167). • Became the ninth Husker in program history to reach 200 career hits, 150 runs and 150 RBI. • Started 59 games at shortstop for the Huskers. • Batted .353 with 16 doubles, two triples and a team-high 15 home runs. • Led the team with 65 RBI while scoring 53 runs. • Recorded 26 multi-hit games, including 10 games with three hits, two games with four hits and one five-hit effort. • Had a team-high 14 multi-RBI games, including six games with four or more RBI. • Went 5-for-5 with two doubles and two RBI against South Dakota State. • Was 3-for-4 with two homers and four runs driven in. • Drove in a season-high five runs against Indiana. • Compiled four hits against Indiana and No. 12 USC. • Drove in four runs against UConn, Michigan State, Michigan and Indiana.

2025
Named to the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List. • Started all 62 games for the Huskers. • Batted .288 at the plate with a team-high 20 doubles and eight home runs. • Concluded season with 47 career doubles, which ranks tied for fifth all-time in program history. • Second on the team with 41 RBI and 49 runs. • Posted a .377 on-base percentage and .486 slugging percentage. • Recorded 16 multi-hit games, including six games with three hits. • Had a team-best 12 multi-RBI contests, including four three-RBI performances. • Went 3-for-4 with two home runs and three RBI at Pepperdine. • Compiled three hits against UC Irvine, Kansas State (twice), Pepperdine, Creighton and Purdue. • Also had three RBI vs. Washington, Pepperdine, Rutgers and Purdue. • Doubled twice against Creighton and No. 13 UCLA. • Homered vs. Kansas State, Washington, Pepperdine (twice), No. 5 Oregon State, Iowa, Minnesota and Purdue.

2024
Started 61 games in second season with the Huskers. • Hit .255 at the plate with a team-high 18 doubles, seven home runs, 31 RBI and 30 runs scored. • Had three stolen bases in six attempts. • Finished second on the team with 17 multi-hit contests, including a trio of three-hit games. • Tied for third on the team with seven multi-RBI games, including a pair of three-RBI performances. • Matched his season-high totals in hits and RBI with a 3-for-4 effort with a home run, three RBI and two runs at Minnesota. • Recorded a season-high three hits against Charleston, Rutgers and Minnesota. • Drove in a season-best three runs vs. South Alabama and Minnesota. 

2023
Appeared in 53 games, making 53 starts in his debut season with the Huskers. • Hit .275 at the plate with nine doubles, two triples and four home runs. • Tallied 30 RBI and scored 33 runs. • Posted a .348 on-base percentage and a .396 slugging percentage. • Recorded 18 multi-hit performances, including a trio of three-hit games and one four-hit game. • Had nine games with at least two RBI, including eight games with two RBI and one game with four RBI. • Posted a season-high four hits with a 4-for-6 performance with two RBI and a pair of runs scored vs. Hawaii. • Totaled three-hit games vs. San Diego, Nicholls and Penn State. • Recorded a season-high two doubles vs. Nicholls and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. • Homered against San Diego (twice), Illinois and Omaha.

Ponderosa High School
Lettered two years under coach Bob Maloney at Ponderosa High School. • Ranked the top recruit in Colorado by Prep Baseball Report. • Named Class 4A Player of the Year and a Rawlings First-Team High School All-American after hitting .527 with 49 hits and 53 RBI as a senior. • The two-time first-team all-state and first-team all-conference selection hit .517 with five homers, 21 RBI and 16 runs scored in league play as a junior. • Helped the Mustangs to the Class 4A state championship and a conference title in junior season. • Earned a spot on the Perfect Game National Elite Championship All-Tournament Team in 2021. • Tabbed a Preseason Underclass All-American, he earned Perfect Game World Series All-Tournament honors three years in a row (2018-20), WWBA All-Tournament Team recognition twice (2018-19) and was part of the Freshman World Championship All-Tournament Team in 2018.

Personal
Parents are Brian and Jennifer Carey. • Has one sister, Brooke. • Cousin, Scott Fries, was a member of the Nebraska baseball program in 1999 and 2000. • Grandfather, Dave Carey, was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the fourth round of the 1971 MLB Draft. • Great uncle, Dan Carey, was drafted by the New York Mets in the second round of the 1967 MLB Draft. • Majoring in management.