The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference announced the 2026 post season awards Thursday night at the GLIAC Tournament being held in Utica, and 12 Grand Valley State Lakers were honored. GVSU, which captured the 2026 regular season title, tallied four major award winners. Third-year head coach Jordan Keur was named the GLIAC Coach of the Year, while senior SS Evan Morrison was named the GLIAC Player of the Year. Senior pitcher Collin Bradley was named the GLIAC Pitcher of the Year and Jackson Kees was named the GLIAC Freshman Pitcher of the Year. 

Seven Lakers earned First-Team All-GLIAC honors, three were named Second-Team All-GLIAC and two were selected as All-GLIAC Honorable Mention.

GLIAC Coach of the Year – Jordan Keur
Head coach Jordan Keur guided the Lakers to a 41-8 regular season mark, including the 2026 GLIAC Baseball regular season championship with a 20-4 mark. GVSU's 41 regular season wins mark just the third time in program history that the Lakers eclipsed the 40-win mark in the regular season. GVSU leads the GLIAC in 15 team categories, while also holding down the top spot in 13 GLIAC individual rankings. GVSU is 84-22 under Keur the last two years, including a ledger of 38-10 in GLIAC games. In three years at the helm Keur has now guided GVSU to a GLIAC Tournament title (2024), a GLIAC regular season championship (2026) and three appearances in the NCAA Tournament. Keur reached the 100-win mark faster than another head coach in GVSU baseball history (145 games).

GLIAC Player of the Year – Evan Morrison
SS Evan Morrison becomes the eighth GVSU Laker to be named the GLIAC Player of the Year, and the first since 2014. Morrison tallied another record-breaking year for the Lakers offensively, but also provided highlight plays defensively. Morrison hit .395 during the regular season, and led the league in hits (83), runs scored with a GVSU single-season record of 74 and triples with six. Morrison leads the GLIAC and ranks second nationally in the toughest to strike out category (6). He opened the year with a 31-game hitting streak and reached base in 45-of-49 games. He scored a run in 36 games and scored two or more runs 21 times. Morrison tallied 26 multi-hit games, including 12 games with three hits or more. He reached base via a hit, walk or hit by pitch 111 times and accounted for 110 runs (runs-RBI). Morrison has reached base safely in 100-of-106 games played in his two years with the Lakers.

GLIAC Pitcher of the Year – Collin Bradley
Senior pitcher Collin Bradley is the sixth Grand Valley State hurler to earn GLIAC Pitcher of the Year honors, and the first since 2014. Bradley has been outstanding from the opening pitch of the 2026 season, recording a GLIAC-best 9-0 record with a 1.93 ERA. He has yielded 16 earned runs in 74.2 innings with 53 strikeouts and set program records earlier this season with 28.2 consecutive innings without allowing a run and 34.1 innings without allowing an earned run. He has allowed two runs or less in 10 of 12 starts and logged 6.0 IP or more in seven starts. Bradley leads the GLIAC in WHIP (0.92) and walks allowed per nine innings (1.81). During his career Bradley ranks third in wins with 24, fifth in strikeouts with 182 and sixth in innings pitched with 223.1. 

GLIAC Freshman Pitcher of the Year
Jackson Kees has been named the GLIAC Freshman Pitcher of the year after an outstanding season on the mound. Kees is 8-1 with a 3.47 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 59.2 innings pitched. He has logged 5.0 innings or more in eight of 12 starts and yielded two runs or less in nine starts. Kees' eight wins as a freshman is the top single-season total in GVSU annals. He ranks in the top five of six individual GLIAC pitching categories and GVSU is 10-2 in games started by Kees. 

GVSU garnered seven first-team honorees, including Morrison and Bradley; senior 1B Jovan Gill; junior 3B Caleb Estrada, freshman DH Josh Fleming, junior P Owen Avery, senior RP Ethan Houghtaling. 

Gill is hitting .360, leads the GLIAC in RBIs with 73 and is second in home runs (12) and doubles (17). Gill has recorded 24 multi-hit games and 18 multi-RBI games. He has driven in a run in 38 games, including two or more RBI 18 times. 

Estrada is hitting .394 and leads the GLIAC in home runs (14) and total bases (138) and ranks second in hits (80), RBIs (64), and runs scored (59). Estrada has reached base in 47 consecutive games and tallied 24 multi-hit games and 17 multi-RBI games.

Fleming is hitting .444 (40-for-90) in 30 games for the Lakers. He has tallied seven doubles, seven home runs, 30 runs scored and 30 RBI, while reaching base in 24 consecutive games. 

Avery is 8-1 on the year with a 2.44 ERA. He has 52 strikeouts and yielded just 17 earned runs in 62.2 inning pitched. The Lakers are 11-1 in games started by Avery and opponents are hitting just .223.

Houghtaling has a 1.97 ERA and recorded five saves in 16 appearances and 32.0 innings pitched. Houghtaling tallied 30 strikeouts and yielded just seven earned runs. 
 
Three Lakers earned All-GLIAC Second-Team plaudits: senior OF Jake Skaggs, freshman C Noah Brandt, junior OF Ryan Stimac. 
Skaggs is hitting .310 with 54 hits, 41 runs scored and 42 RBI. Skaggs has 14 multi-hit games and 12 multi-RBI games.

Brandt is hitting .338 with 23 hits, 14 runs scored and 13 RBI in 23 games. In addition, Brandt has a .979 fielding percentage behind the dish and has thrown out five on the bases. 
Stimac is hitting .365 in 35 games with 42 hits, 38 runs scored, 17 RBI and nine doubles. Stimac has reached base in all 35 games he has played, while notching 10 multi-hit games and a season-best 13-game hitting streak. 

In addition to being the GLIAC Freshman Pitcher of the Year, Kees was an honorable mention performer. Sophomore OF Caden Thelen also earned an All-GLIAC selection. Thelen is hitting .291 with 41 hits, 38 runs scored, 42 RBI, eight doubles, three triples and three home runs. In addition, Thelen has 12 multi-hit games, 13 multi-RBI games and a season-best 17-game reached base streak.