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Roch Cholowsky named Big Ten Player of the Year for second time

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Roch Cholowsky and the UCLA Bruins starred during the Big Ten Conference's All-Conference announcements on Tuesday.

After another terrific season for the UCLA Bruins , junior infielder Roch Cholowsky was named the Big Ten Conference Player of the Year for the second season in a row, becoming the third player to ever win the award multiple times. UCLA just completed their best regular season ever this past weekend, with the Bruins taking a 48-6 record into the Big Ten Conference tournament later this week. Cholowsky joins Minnesotaโ€™s Luke Appert (2002-03) and Michiganโ€™s Barry Larkin (1984-85) as the only players to win the Big Ten Conference Player of the Year in consecutive years.

Roch ๐ซ๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ญ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค. For the second consecutive season, @CholowskyRoch is your @B1Gbaseball ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐˜๐ž๐š๐ซ. He becomes just the third player in Big Ten history to win the award multiple times.

๐Ÿ“ฐ https://t. co/XQJFyTfnDC #GoBruins pic. twitter.

com/opN1VwbkPR โ€” UCLA Baseball (@UCLABaseball) May 19, 2026 Itโ€™d be no surprise if Cholowsky went first overall in this summerโ€™s MLB Draft, with the shortstop batting . 330 this season with 21 home runs and 59 runs batted in. For his UCLA career, Cholowsky owns a .