The accolades keep coming for Michael Anderson.

The senior designated hitter earned yet another honor on Friday morning, being named a Rawlings/ABCA First-Team All-American, just a day after earning second-team honors from the NCBWA.

Anderson rewrote the record books in 2026, slashing .358/.470/.742 with a program-record 20 home runs, 53 RBIs, and 32 extra-base hits in 50 games after transferring from Arkansas. In addition to breaking the home run record, he broke the hit-by-pitch record with 18 and moved into fourth all-time in single-season slugging percentage and total bases.

Joining Anderson as a First-Team All-American from the Big Ten are UCLA’s Roch Cholowsky (SS) and Easton Hawk (RP), and USC’s Mason Edwards (SP). He’s the only player from a non-Pacific Big Ten member to be higher than a Third-Team All-American

After authoring one of the greatest seasons in program history, Anderson became only the 18th Nittany Lion to be named to the All-Big Ten First Team, the 13th Nittany Lion to be named an All-American, and the fifth to be named to the first team.

He joins pitcher Ed Drapcho (1957), second basemen Larry Fegley (1960) and Greg Vogel (1976), and outfielder Michael Campo (2000) in the pantheon of Penn State baseball history.