CONWAY - Coastal Carolina junior designated hitter G.K. Young was named a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy, given annually to the top player in collegiate and administered by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

Young is one of 43 players to be semifinalists and is the fourth Chanticleer to be considered for one of the nation's top honors, joining Mike Costanzo (2005), Anthony Meo (2010) and Tommy La Stella (2011).

The Conway native is among the nation's top hitters and, despite being just a junior, ranks 24th among active Division I players with 26 career home runs. Young, who has hit nine home runs over his last 20 games, leads the Big South in home runs (15) and RBI (56), is fourth in runs scored (50) and ranks 15th in the league with his.339 batting average.

Young has reached base safely (hit/walk/hit by pitch) in 48 of CCU's 53 games this season and has a hit in 43 of 53 games. He recently had a streak of reaching base safely snap at 20 games, getting a hit in 18 of those.

2016 DICK HOWSER TROPHY SEMIFINALISTS
Peter Alonso, 1B, Florida
Luken Baker, UTL, TCU
Seth Beer, OF, Clemson
Jake Burger, 3B, Missouri State
Joseph Camacho, SP, Alabama State
CJ Chatham, SS, Florida Atlantic
Zack Collins, C, Miami
Will Craig, 3B, Wake Forest
Chris DeVito, C, New Mexico
Nick Feight, C, UNC Wilmington
Matt Fiedler, UTL, Minnesota
Jameson Fisher, 1B, Southeastern Louisiana
Bryan Garcia, RP, Miami
Thomas Hackimer, RP, St. John's
Darrick Hall, 1B, Dallas Baptist
Drew Harrington, SP, Louisville
Kevin Hill, SP, South Alabama
Dakota Hudson, SP, Mississippi State
Connor Jones, SP, Virginia
Connor Justus, SS, Georgia Tech
Eric Lauer, SP, Kent State
Kyle Lewis, OF, Mercer
Brendan McKay, UTL, Louisville
Hunter Melton, 1B, Texas A&M
Brian Mims, 2B, UNC Wilmington
Dylan Moore, RP, Louisiana-Lafayette
Sheldon Neuse, SS, Oklahoma
Jake Noll, 2B, Florida Gulf Coast
Corey Raley, DH, Texas Tech
Troy Rallings, RP, Washington
Corey Ray, OF, Louisville
Bryan Reynolds, OF, Vanderbilt
John Sansone, 3B, Florida State
Clarke Schmidt, SP, South Carolina
Ryan Scott, OF, Little Rock
Nick Senzel, 3B, Tennessee
Colton Shaver, DH, BYU
Logan Shore, SP, Florida
Nick Solak, 2B, Louisville
Matt Thaiss, C, Virginia
Taylor Walls, SS, Florida State
Boomer White, 3B, Texas A&M
G.K. Young, DH, Coastal Carolina