Tika Cholowsky

[UCLA Baseball @UCLABaseball]

UCLA tops the @NCBWA All-America teams with a 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 six selections!

#GoBruins

[UCLA Baseball @UCLABaseball]

𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 ⭐️

UCLA leads the west with 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 First Team All-Region recipients!

#GoBruins

[Baseball America @BaseballAmerica]

Mock Draft 4.0 dropped today.

Here are the top 10 picks 👀

https://t.co/hdToSpaJVo

[UCLA Baseball @UCLABaseball]

Roch Cholowsky is named the District 9 Player of the Year for the second straight season!

#GoBruins

[MLB Pipeline @MLBPipeline]

The latest 2026 mock draft is LIVE!

Here's how we see the first 40 picks shaking out ahead of Super Regionals action: https://t.co/9AgVRyn3pn

[Big Ten Baseball @B1Gbaseball]

The Bruins were must-see TV all season 👏

[UCLA Baseball @UCLABaseball]

Roch Cholowsky has been selected as a Dick Howser Trophy finalist announced today by @NCBWA.

Cholowsky has been named a finalist for the award in back-to-back seasons.

🗞️: https://t.co/17uFqf08Gi

#GoBruins

[UCLA Baseball @UCLABaseball]

The reigning Brooks Wallace Award winner is a finalist yet again!

#GoBruins

[Jack Savage @JackJohnSavage]

Hard to find the words, but I tried anyway.

A deeply personal tribute to the 2026 UCLA baseball team…
https://t.co/7E4qBgidbu

[Jon Karcich @JonKarcich]

At 18 years old, Roch Cholowsky had a choice.

Take first-round money from MLB. Or take a football scholarship, he was good enough for Notre Dame to offer him one as a QB.

He turned down both.

Instead he chose to walk onto a UCLA campus and join a program that would win just 19 games is Freshman year. No guaranteed role. No guaranteed anything. Just like life.

Freshman year he spent most of his time at third base. Hit below .250 for a month. One homer three quarters through the season.

In the transfer portal era, where every highly recruited kid bounces the second things get hard... he didn't flinch.

He waited. He worked. He stayed.

And so did his teammates.

The majority of that roster stayed together. Built something. Trusted the process when it wasn't pretty. That's not a coincidence, that's culture. And culture starts with your best player setting the standard every single day.

That's delayed gratification in real time.

Sophomore year: .353. 23 HRs. 74 RBI. National Player of the Year. College World Series.

Here's what people don't talk about though.

The kid keeps a vision board in his dorm room. Has since his senior year of high school. Individual goals on the left side. Team goals on the right side. He doesn't just write them down... he sees them every single day.

Tucked in the corner of that board is a handwritten note from his mom.

Four words.

"Keep your circle small."

At the peak of the hype, when everybody wants a piece of you... he had the blinders on anyway. That doesn't happen by accident. That starts at home.

His head coach John Savage said it plainly:

"His makeup, his leadership, his work ethic in the weight room, drills, practice, meetings, it's all about winning with him."

Savage also called him a "head coach's dream." In 10 years coaching at the D1 level and as a 7th round draft pick myself... I can tell you that phrase gets used maybe once or twice in an entire career.

And then there's the QB piece. Shortstop IS the quarterback of the field. You're calling coverages, commanding the defense, reading the game before the ball is even hit. Cholowsky did that every Friday night under the lights in high school. He didn't just play baseball. He learned how to lead.

His words:

"Football helped me leadership-wise, because nothing works if the guys aren't on the same page."

Now they're the #1 team in the country. And he's the #1 pick in the country.

Does that mean he goes #1 overall in July? Has a long MLB career? Makes the Hall of Fame?

Not necessarily.

But he's living right. He understands his system. He knows who he is and what he needs to do every single day.

The talent gets you noticed.

The character gets you there.

That's Roch Cholowsky. That's why coaches and MLB scouts respect him.

I'm a fan. And we have to remember, it's not easy. But we're only as good as the system we build for ourselves.

Your journey IS YOUR journey!

@CholowskyRoch

[UCLA Baseball @UCLABaseball]

Cinematic recap: Big Ten Tournament 🎥🏆

#GoBruins

[Baseball America @BaseballAmerica]

Baseball America's NCAA Player of the Year finalists 🏆

Roch Cholowsky, @UCLABaseball
Tague Davis, @LouisvilleBSB
Landon Hairston, @ASU_Baseball
Daniel Jackson, @BaseballUGA
Vahn Lackey, @GTBaseball

https://t.co/nHxHOxQVDV

[UCLA Baseball @UCLABaseball]

You heard the man! 🗣️

PACK JACKIE‼️

🎟️: https://t.co/rFnwuw2zsL

#GoBruins

[Big Ten Baseball @B1Gbaseball]

🗣️ A message from your B1G CHAMPS 🏆

[Big Ten Baseball @B1Gbaseball]

B1G Champs looks good on you, @UCLABaseball 😉

[UCLA Baseball @UCLABaseball]

No. 1 UCLA (49-6, 28-2 Big Ten) completes a dramatic comeback win over Purdue to advance to tomorrow's semifinal round against No. 4-seed USC. First pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m. PT.

RECAP: https://t.co/V1gDq7hl50
HIGHLIGHTS: https://t.co/Npat8Hahoz

[UCLA Baseball @UCLABaseball]

𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲. ⚾️

🆚| @USC_Baseball
📍| Charles Schwab Field Omaha
⏰| 12 PM PT
📺| @BigTenNetwork
📻| https://t.co/0iZHs41psf
📊| https://t.co/Dn0wZq4oBs

#GoBruins

[Nick Koop @koop_nick]

Last night marked @UCLABaseball's eighth comeback win in the seventh inning or later this season, setting up a date with USC today at noon PT for a spot in the @B1Gbaseball championship game (listen: https://t.co/eALazI9l2O).

In the meantime, some highlights from last night:

[Big Ten Baseball @B1Gbaseball]

Absolute cinema 🎥

A comeback victory over Purdue sends @UCLABaseball to the tournament semifinals 🙌

[Big Ten Baseball @B1Gbaseball]

Roch Cholowsky is for the fans ⚾️✍️