The Cougar third baseman was previously named West Coast Conference Co-Player of the Year, NCBWA District 8 Player of the Year and was recognized as Third Team All-American by Collegiate Baseball. Deming was also a semifinalist for the prestigious Dick Howser Trophy, awarded annually by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association to the nation’s top college baseball player.

The 2023 American Baseball Coaches Association All-Region Teams were announced for eight geographical regions and were voted on by members of the ABCA under the direction of the ABCA NCAA DI All-America Committee.

Deming is one of 27 student-athletes representing Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah and Washington who were honored as part of the All-West Region First or Second Team. He was the only representative from the state of Utah and was joined by three student-athletes from other WCC schools, including Diego Barrera of LMU and Ryan Johnson and Jack Basseer of Pepperdine.

Deming of Santa Clara, Utah, won the WCC regular-season triple crown with a league-leading .418 batting average, 19 home runs and 68 RBI during the 2023 season.

He led the WCC in nine offensive categories during the 2023 regular season. In addition to batting average, home runs and RBI, he also led the league in slugging (.915), total bases (151), hits per game (1.68), RBI per game (1.66), home runs per game (.46) and doubles per game (.56).

Nationally, Deming finished the regular season ranked top 10 in seven offensive categories, including, No. 1 in doubles per game, slugging (2nd), RBI per game (4th), HR per game (6th), batting average (9th), doubles (9th) and hits per game (10th).

A two-time First Team All-WCC honoree, Deming played in 171 games in his BYU career from 2019-23. Over the past two seasons he was named WCC Player of the Week three times and was recognized as national player of the week by four different organizations on April 7 during the 2023 season.

In addition to all the success on the field, Deming graduated from BYU in April 2023 with a degree in communications, with a journalism emphasis.

Since 1961, 68 BYU baseball players have been named All-Region by the ABCA, including former All-American Michael Rucker who is in his third season with the Chicago Cubs.

Men’s Track given USTFCCCA award

NEW ORLEANS — The BYU men’s track and field and cross country program has been named the 2022-2023 John McDonnell NCAA Division I Men’s Program of the Year, the USTFCCCA announced Tuesday afternoon.

“This is a great honor that represents the work of each of our coaches and student athletes and reflects the overall strength of the program,” said BYU Director of Track and Field Ed Eyestone. “We’re not one dimensional with strength isolated to just distance running. We’re a well-rounded, balanced program.”

The annual award is given to the season’s most outstanding track and field/cross country program. It accounts for a program’s success across indoor and outdoor track and field seasons along with its cross country campaign as well.

The Cougars excelled at all three of the season’s NCAA Championships, placing third overall in cross country (132 points), 12th at indoor nationals (17 points) and most recently 10th at outdoor nationals (22.5 points).

Since the award’s debut following the 2008-09 season, the BYU men have finished near the top of the award standings in three previous seasons. The Cougars were runner-up to Arkansas in 2020-21 and Stanford in 2018-19, while also finishing third behind Florida State and Stanford in 2010-11.

BYU sealed its award-winning season with a steeplechase national champion, six First Team All-American honors and a 10th-place team finish at outdoor nationals in Austin, Texas June 7-9.

Kenneth Rooks’ steeplechase national championship fueled the top-10 finish as did 10,000-meter bronze medal recipient Casey Clinger and fellow first teamers Caleb Witsken (pole vault), Cameron Bates (javelin throw), Dallin Shurts (discus throw) and Ben Barton (decathlon).

The Cougars now have two top-10 finishes at outdoor nationals in four seasons. Among the coming season’s Big 12 track and field programs, BYU finished second only to Texas Tech (sixth).

BYU posted seven First Team All-Americans at indoor nationals in March, its most since 2011.. Casey Clinger brought home First Team honors in both the 3000 and 5000-meters while Caleb Witsken did in the pole vault along with the distance medley relay squad of Kenneth Rooks, Trey Jackson, Sebastian Fernandez and Lucas Bons.

With a third-place finish at cross country nationals in November 2022, BYU men’s cross country garnered its seventh straight top-10 finish and 23rd consecutive in the top-25. The Cougars’ run of success is highlighted by a team national title in 2019 and back-to-back individual championships from Conner Mantz in 2020-21 and 2021.

In 2022 the Cougars boasted four All-Americans: Casey Clinger, Brandon Garnica, Davin Thompson and Creed Thompson. Clinger led BYU at seventh after clocking a 28:58.7 in the 10k.

The honor comes just two years after the BYU women won the USTFCCCA’s Terry Crawford Women’s Division I Program of the Year award in 2020-21.

Both BYU men’s and women’s track and field and cross country welcome the coming challenge of Big 12 competition beginning in fall 2023.

“This is a great day for BYU track and field and cross country,” Eyestone said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to continue in the running for this award as we move into the Big 12.”

Mateo preps for US Women’s Open

Former BYU women’s golfer Allysha Mae Mateo has qualified for and will tee it up at the 78th United States Women’s Open, July 6-9 at Pebble Beach Golf Links.

“Qualifying for the U.S. Open is so exciting for me, and to play at Pebble Beach makes it even better,” Mateo said. “I’m excited to play in a tournament with so much history and to test my game against the best players in the world.”

The U.S. Women’s Open is one of four flagship, professional events hosted by the United States Golf Association. It was first played in 1946 and is the longest-running event on the LPGA Tour. The 2023 playing will be the 78th edition of the U.S. Women’s Open Championship and the first to be hosted by Pebble Beach Golf Links.

Mateo was a five-year starter for the Cougars who graduated in April from BYU’s Marriott School of Business with a Master of Accountancy degree and a 3.94 GPA. She will join a field comprised of 150 players which includes 72 of the top 75 golfers in the latest Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings. BYU women’s golf head coach Carrie Roberts will be on the bag for Mateo at the event.

“I’m super excited for Allysha Mae to experience one of the premier events in women’s golf,” Roberts said. “This will be the biggest event she has ever played in and will be an amazing opportunity for her to get a taste of playing in a major championship on the LPGA Tour. She has worked incredibly hard, has earned this opportunity and I couldn’t be prouder of her.”

Following her BYU career, Mateo now sets her sights on LPGA Tour Qualifying School Aug. 28-31.

“Qualifying for and being able to compete at the U.S. Open will be a great test of where my game is,” Mateo said. “Being able to measure where I fit in with some of the best players in the game will be great preparation for Q-school.”