University of Arkansas at Monticello Athletics

The list of UAM baseball players to earn first team All-America honors is a short one. Only three players are on that list — Darrell Rhodes in 1982, Corey Wood in 2016, and Joe Daw in 1993.

Daw earned first team All-America honors from the NAIA after leading the Boll Weevils to an unexpected AIC championship. The ’93 Weevils were 25-22 overall but a stellar 19-5 in league competition, with Daw redefining the word “durable” by pitching almost every meaningful game.

The strong-armed righthander was 10-0 against AIC competition with a 3.34 earned run average and set single-season school records for wins (15) and innings pitched (122) while leading UAM to its first conference title in nearly 30 years. Daw was the 1993 NAIA South Region Player of the Year and earned first team All-AIC honors.

Daw, his wife, J.J., and daugther Sydney live in the Houston, Tex., suburb of Conroe where Joe works as principal at Knox Junior High School.

“That ‘93 team was a great group of guys,” says Daw. “Anything I accomplished was because of them.”