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Grand Canyon Antelopes baseball

The Grand Canyon Antelopes baseball team represents Grand Canyon University, which is located in Phoenix, Arizona. The Antelopes, also known as the Lopes, are an NCAA Division I college baseball program competing as members of the Mountain West Conference. They were in Division I from 1991 to 1998, the final four seasons in the WAC, and returned to the WAC from 2014 to 2025.

GCU plays all home games on campus at Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark. Over its 18 discontinuous seasons in the WAC, GCU won eight regular-season titles.

In 2024, GCU was recognized as the No. 52 ranked college baseball program in the nation by D1Baseball.

Since the program's inception in 1953, 18 Lopes have gone on to play Major League Baseball, highlighted by 1993 AL Rookie of the Year and 2002 World Series champion Tim Salmon and 2023 sixth overall pick Jacob Wilson. Wilson also became the first Lope to be selected as an MLB All-Star in 2025.

Dr. Dave Brazell founded Grand Canyon's baseball program and it began play in 1953. The team lost its first game to Phoenix College on March 23, 1953. The team won its first game against Eastern Arizona College on March 27, 1954.

The Lopes won four NAIA National Championships in the 1980s: 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1986.

GCU hired Andy Stankiewicz on April 25, 2011.

Stankiewicz led the program in its final two seasons at the Division II level, the duration of the four-year transition period to the Division I level, and to the school's first two NCAA Division I tournament appearances.

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