NEW ORLEANS – After backstopping Coastal Carolina to the championship series at the Men’s College World Series in Omaha, Neb., junior catcher Caden Bodine received the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings Gold Glove at catcher—the first in Chanticleer program history. 
 
An All-Sun Belt First Team selection and the Most Outstanding Player at the Sun Belt Baseball Championship, Bodine started 67 games for the Chanticleers—66 behind the plate and one at designated hitter—guiding a pitching staff than ranked No. 2 nationally in both ERA and WHIP. Offensively, the Haddon Heights, N.J., native hit .318 with a team-leading .454 on-base percentage, drawing 47 walks and being hit by 17 pitches. 
 
A consistent presence atop the Coastal Carolina lineup, Bodine added 24 extra-base hits—18 doubles, one triple and five home runs—and tallied 42 RBI and 55 runs scored. Behind the dish, Bodine threw out 19 would-be base stealers on 44 attempts, tied the Chanticleer career record with 46 runners caught stealing and finished the season with a .998 fielding percentage. 
 
Bodine contributed to a Coastal Carolina team that amassed a program-record and national-best 56 wins. The Chanticleers rattled off a 26-game winning streak, which included an unblemished postseason run before falling the LSU in the national championship final. Along the way, Coastal Carolina captured the Sun Belt regular-season and tournament titles and the Conway Regional and Auburn Super Regional Championships, before making a 3-0 run in Omaha to advance to the championship series.
 
The Chanticleers carried the longest-ever winning streak into the Men’s College World Series (23 games) and into the national championship round (26 games)—snapping a 77-year-old record 18-game winning streak entering the national championship by USC in 1948 in the process. 
 
With Bodine behind the plate, Coastal Carolina returned to the Men’s College World Series (2016) and the championship series (2016) for the second time in program history and became the second Sun Belt team to compete in the Men’s College World Series (Louisiana 2000). The Chanticleers finished as the national runner-up, concluding the 2025 campaign ranked No. 2 in all five national polls.