Tulane junior first baseman Michael Aubrey was named as the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) District VII Co-Player of the Year by the organization on Friday. He shared the honor with Southern University junior second baseman Rickie Weeks. Voting for the awards was done by the membership of the NCBWA, featuring writers, broadcasters and publicists of college baseball. The District VII area includes all Division I players in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. It is the third straight year that a Green Wave player that has earned NCBWA District VII Player of the Year, as James Jurries earned the honor last season and Jake Gautreau won it in 2001.

Aubrey, the Conference USA Player of the Year, is a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy and the Smith Award, all representing the best player in collegiate baseball. He leads Conference USA with a .420 batting average and a .505 on-base percentage, while also topping the circuit in hits (102) and RBI (79), while smacking 18 home runs and 20 doubles.

His .420 batting average ranks third in the Green Wave single-season record book, and his 102 hits in 2003 not only ranks fifth overall but marks the first time in school history that a player posted 100-plus hits twice in his career after tallying 100 base knocks as a freshman in 2001.

A career .368 hitter, Aubrey ranks fourth in the Tulane record book in batting average, seventh with 200 RBI and 10th in hits with 268 and in home runs with 38.

Aubrey will continue his baseball career in the Cleveland Indians organization. The Tribe selected the infielder in the first round of the June major league draft on Tuesday. Aubrey became the third Green Wave player to be selected in the first round