JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Today, Tuesday, May 31, was a huge day in the world of Division III collegiate baseball postseason awards as both the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and D3baseball.com released their 2022 All-Region Teams. For the first time since 2018, the New Jersey City University baseball program has a student-athlete recognized as an All-Region selection by D3baseball.com. Even more impressively, for the first time since 2007, a Gothic Knight was selected to an ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III All-Region Team. Senior centerfielder Ricky Voss (Eatontown, N.J./Monmouth Regional), who mashed the ball all season long, continues his historic postseason accolade list with First Team ABCA All-Region 4 Honors and D3baseball.com Second Team All-Region 4 recognition.

In 2018, then-senior Mike Ramirez picked up Third Team accolades as a utility player from D3baseball.com. Before him, then-freshman Alex Weinstein also earned Third Team recognition from D3baseball.com. Prior to that, then-juniors Jose Fulgencio and Rob Sumner earned Second Team honors from the ABCA in 2007. Sumner was the only two-time All-Region selection of any kind in program history and now Voss has joined that group in one season. Additionally, Rich Levens ('91, HOF '06) was awarded ABCA First Team All-Mid Atlantic District honors in 1987 and Charlie Auletto ('95) had First Team All-State and All-Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) honors in 1994. Voss now joins rarefied air as a Gothic Knight as a First Team ABCA All-Region honoree himself.

Following his performance this season, Voss has already collected First Team All-New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) honors, which was the first time NJCU baseball had a First Team honoree since 2008. A couple of weeks ago, Voss also picked up his second straight College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) First Team Academic All-District selection, becoming the first two-time honoree for the Gothic Knights overall since 2008.

At the end of NJCU's season, Voss led Jersey City in nearly every offensive category, including a program-record-tying nine homers, batting (.418), OPS (1.256), runs (46), hits (61), doubles (14), RBI (45), total bases (108), slugging (.740), walks (t-1st, 24) and on-base (.516). At the time, he was also top 10 in nine different categories in the NJAC, including second in slugging, on-base and OPS and third in batting and homers.

Some possible postseason awards that still await Voss are CoSIDA Academic All-America (which will be announced on Wednesday, June 8) and All-ECAC honors, as well as the potential for ABCA All-America, which will be released on Thursday, June 2.