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Texas infielder Ivan Melendez, the country's collegiate home run leader with 29, was named the Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Year on Thursday.
Melendez, a redshirt junior from El Paso, boasts a .903 slugging percentage and became the Texas all-time season-leader in home runs (29) this season.
He joins a trio of Longhorns greats to win the prestigious honor, following in the footsteps of Brooks Kieschnick (1993), Scott Bryant (1989) and Greg Swindell (1986).
Melendez tallied 87 RBIs on the season which ranks second nationally, a .406 batting average which is eighth-best in the country and a .522 on-base percentage which is fourth nationally.
Melendez wasn’t highly recruited when he graduated from Coronado High School in 2018. Instead he went to Odessa College, where his hard work and determination earned him a spot at Texas. Two years later, Melendez is a superstar with a cult following and a catchy nickname.
He could be El Paso’s next MLB star, but what he’s come to mean for two communities hundreds of miles apart will be the greatest impact of the Hispanic Titanic.
When Melendez walks to the plate for his at-bats at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin, the sultry sounds of Vicente Fernandez’s “El Rey,” serenade the ballpark. Melendez chose it to be his walk-up song as an homage to the late Mexican legend last offseason.
