CCCBCA Sends More Than 600 Players From 2025 Class To University Teams

COMPLETE LIST OF 4-YEAR UNIVERSITY TRANSFERS

A staggering list of more than 600 student-athletes from 81 California Community Colleges have taken their baseball talents to the university level. 

This first-time list perfomed by the CCCBCA features 185 players now on NCAA Division I rosters. 

Golden West has not only the most players overall moving on in 21, but to D1 schools as well with 12. College of the Desert had the next most with 20, but all to either D2/D3 or NAIA institutions.

Other top notables were Cypress with 17 (nine to the D1 level), Ohlone with 16 (seven to D1), Sacramento City (nine to D1), Saddleback (six to D1), and Riverside City with 15 (four D1) each, and Los Angeles Valley with 14 (nine to D1).

Colleges that sent 10 or more also included Sierra with 13 (five to D1), Grossmont with 12 (five to D1),  Cabrillo, Canada (three to D1), Coalinga (two to D1), East Los Angeles (two to D1), Santa Rosa (six to D1) all with 11, this year's state champion *Mt. San Antonio (six to D1), Monterey Peninsula (one to D1), Palomar (five to D1), San Diego Mesa (one to D1), Shasta (one to D1), and Solano (two to D1) each with 10 continuing their athletic/academic careers.

Those with nine each moving on were Canyons (two to D1), Citrus (one to D1), Cosumnes River (one to D1), Fresno City (three to D1), Glendale (five to D1), Lassen (three to D1), Redwoods (one to D1), San Mateo (five to D1), Santa Ana (four to D1), West Valley (five to D1), and Modesto (four to D1).

Players from the 2025 ABCA/Rawlings All-America Team now attending and playing at D1 universities include Ohlone's Will Anderson at Santa Clara, San Mateo's Dylin Hillman at UC Irvine, Mt. San Antonio's Landon White at Gonzaga, Bryan Bradshaw at UC San Diego and Ty Thomas to Cal State Fullerton, Chaffey's Ryder Young at Gonzaga, Grossmont's Nico Newman to Nebraska, Cypress's Evan Rolbiecki at Hawaii and Tommy McGuire to Grand Canyon, Feather River's Anthony Cepeda at Wichita State and Will Page-Allen to Fresno State, Santa Rosa's Luke Schat at Nevada, Lassen's Luke Morgan at Oregon and Mitchell Basterrechea to Queens, Fresno City's Bo Rico at Fresno State, Los Medanos' Smith Chandler to Long Beach State, Southwestern's Maddox Haley at Gonzaga, Golden West's Bryan Martinez to Utah Tech, Santa Barbara City's Joe Talarico at Connecticut, Glendale's Matt Cuccias to Wichita State, and Santa Ana's Spencer Johnsen at Indiana State. 

Division II Menlo College in Atherton, Calif., has 16 players among the '25 class from 12 different colleges on its 2026 roster. 

More than 50 percent of the transfers, a group of 371 players, left California to play across the U.S. in 42 different states and a few to Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada.

*Izeah Muniz committed to Oklahoma State but has since signed a professional contract with the Colorado Rockies

Editor's Note: the numbers may go up based on those so far unreported by some colleges, and will be added to the list--edited with addition in pdf, Jan. 29