KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Bellevue University's Cody Banks (Duvall, Wash.) was named the Gold Glover winner at second base on Tuesday afternoon when the ABCA/Rawlings-NAIA Gold Glove Team, selected by the NAIA-Baseball Coaches Association All-America Committee, was announced.
This was the 14th season of the award, started in 2007, in which nine players were chosen based upon their defensive success. There was no team selected during the 2020 season.
Banks is the fourth different Bruin (fifth selection) to be recognized with an NAIA Gold Glove and marks the fourth selection of a BU player in the last five seasons. He joins Brett Chamberlain (C, 2009), Jake Browne (C, 2016 and 2017), and Matt Evans (3B, 2018) as Bruins to have won the award.
Banks posted a .989 fielding percentage while helping the team turn 23 double plays. He played error-free over the season's final 53 games and did not commit an error while manning the keystone.
Offensively, Banks hit .346 with a .923 OPS. He led the team in both hits (77) and doubles (18) while ranking second with 25 extra-base hits, 39 RBI, and seven home runs.
Banks is a two-time all-NSAA and NSAA Gold Glove selection, three-time NSAA Scholar-Athlete, and a 2019 Omaha World-Herald honorable mention NAIA All-Nebraska pick. He was the NSAA Gold Glove winner in 2019 at shortstop and in 2021 at second base.
Bellevue finished the year at 41-18, won the NSAA Regular-Season title, and reached the NAIA National Tournament for the 23rd time in program history. It was their eight 40-win campaign in the last nine full seasons of competition.
