Roch Cholowsky

Roch Cholowsky
Cholowsky with the United States national baseball team in 2025
UCLA Bruins – No. 1
Infielder
Born: (2005-04-07) April 7, 2005 (age 21)
Vallejo, California, U.S.
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
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Career highlights and awards

Daniel Roch Cholowsky (born April 7, 2005) is an American college baseball infielder for the UCLA Bruins. He is projected as a top prospect in the 2026 Major League Baseball draft. [1]

Career

Cholowsky attended Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona, where he played on the baseball team as a shortstop and pitcher and on the football team as a quarterback. As a junior in 2022, he hit .315 with two home runs.[2] As a senior in 2023, he batted .466 with 11 home runs and 35 RBI and was named the Gatorade Arizona Baseball Player of the Year.[3] He was considered a top prospect for the 2023 Major League Baseball draft, but went unselected and enrolled at UCLA to play college baseball.[4][5]

As a freshman at UCLA in 2024, Cholowsky played in 52 games and hit .308 with eight home runs and 33 RBI.[6] After the season, he played in the Cape Cod Baseball League with the Orleans Firebirds.[7][8] As a sophomore in 2025, Cholowsky was named the Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year, Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Year, and helped lead UCLA to their first College World Series in 12 years.[9] He also was awarded the Brooks Wallace Award, given annually to the nation's best college shortstop.[10] Cholowsky finished the season with a .353 batting average, 23 home runs, and 74 RBI over 66 games and earned first team All-American honors from Baseball America.[11] After the season, he was named to the United States national baseball team.[12] As a junior in 2026, Cholowsky hit .320 with 21 home runs and 60 RBI across 60 games, his season ending with UCLA being eliminated by Saint Mary's in the NCAA Los Angeles Regional.[13] He was named the Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Here's Pipeline's first full 2026 mock draft". MLB.com. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
  2. ^ Askeland, Kevin (January 17, 2023). "High school baseball: 2023 Preseason MaxPreps All-America Team". MaxPreps.com.
  3. ^ "Roch Cholowsky Gatorade 2022 - 2023: Player of the Year Baseball - Arizona PLAYER OF THE YEAR". playeroftheyear.gatorade.com.
  4. ^ https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/freshman-spotlight-uclas-roch-cholowsky-packs-a-great-glove/#:~:text=Cholowsky%20was%20named%20the%202023,record%20and%20a%20state%20championship.
  5. ^ Law, Keith (June 29, 2023). "Law's MLB Draft scouting report: Latest on Roch Cholowsky, Jacob Wilson and Homer Bush Jr" – via NYTimes.com.
  6. ^ Price, Lawrence (February 13, 2025). "7 college baseball teams that could win their new conferences after realignment". NCAA.com. Retrieved September 5, 2025.
  7. ^ "Roch Cholowsky". capecodleague.com. Retrieved July 14, 2025.
  8. ^ Pontes, Geoff; Flaherty, Peter (June 28, 2024). "Early Cape League Standouts From 2025, 2026 MLB Draft Classes".
  9. ^ "'Not Done Yet': UCLA, Cholowsky's Omaha Dreams Coming True". UCLA Bruins On SI. June 9, 2025.
  10. ^ UCLA's Roch Cholowsky named 2025 Brooks Wallace Award winner as nation's top shortstop. College Baseball Foundation MLB.com, June 13, 2025
  11. ^ Cholowsky, Levu Receive All-America Honors from Baseball America. UCLABRuins.com June 20, 2025
  12. ^ Rudner, Jacob (August 19, 2025). "Top 10 MLB Draft Prospects From USA Baseball's 2025 Collegiate National Team". Baseball America. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
  13. ^ "Which UCLA Baseball Players Could Leave for MLB Draft". UCLA Bruins On SI. June 1, 2026. Retrieved June 3, 2026.
  14. ^ Bolch, Ben (May 19, 2026). "UCLA's Roch Cholowsky, John Savage win major Big Ten awards". Retrieved May 21, 2026.
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