Mount Pleasant, MI - The American Baseball Coaches Association has released its 2013 All-American teams with Piedmont's Kevin Caldwell earning a spot on the list as a Rawlings Gold Glove award winner on the mound.  Caldwell is the program's first nationally recognized gold glover and third regional winner in Piedmont's NCAA era which began for baseball with the 2004 season as the graduating senior joins former teammates Zac Stein and CURTIS CORNETT who both earned gold glove regional recognition. 

Standing just outside the nation's top ten in games started this season with 13 nods, Caldwell never committed an error at his position in 2013 as the pitcher collected 31 assists and 13 putouts in the field.  This is the second season that Caldwell has posted a 1.000 fielding percentage also doing so in 2010, his first season playing for Head Baseball Coach Jim Peeples.

"This is a great honor for Kevin to be recognized by the American Baseball Coaches Association as the top fielding pitcher in the country," said Peeples of his gold glover.  "As a defender, Kevin was excellent and my coaching staff and I are really proud of him for this honor. It is a great way for him to finish off a stellar career in addition to all the other records he set in his time at Piedmont College."

Kevin leaves Piedmont as the winningest pitcher of the storied program's NCAA history having tabbed 23 victories in his four years with the Lions highlighted by a 9-2 record during the 2011 season that helped PC to a national tourney appearance.  The Loganville native's ninth win came as he struck out eight in an eight-inning, lights-out performance against Salisbury University in his NCAA debut start during that run, earning himself All-Tournament honors at the regional.

Caldwell was a big part of Piedmont's team success leading his Lions to more than 100 wins in his four years wearing the green and gold as well as the 2011 Great South Athletic Conference regular season and tournament championship.  Caldwell's 96 innings pitched in 2013 is the third most in a season during Piedmont's NCAA era as the senior ranks in the top three in several pitching career categories including lowest opponent batting average, most complete games, most innings pitched, and most stikeouts. 

Caldwell's nine wins during the 2011 campaign is a program record while his eight wins in the following season is tied for second in the same category.  Kevin is the only Lion to have recorded multiple seasons where he was asked to throw more than 95 innings as he tossed 96 and two thirds in 2011 and 96 even in 2013.

His career 3.20 ERA is in the top five of all Lions since the 2004 season as is his trio of complete games tossed.  The South Gwinnett graduate is one of just three pitchers in Piedmont's NCAA era to accumluate more than 200 strikeouts joining an elite class of Lion greats on the mound.

Piedmont finished with a 22-22 even record in 2013 along with a 13-11 league mark in its USA South Conference debut.  The Lions took two of three in five of their eight conference series before wrapping up the year by taking two of three from in-state rival Emory University.