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Fort Collins native plays key role for record-setting 59-0 college baseball champions
Former Fort Collins baseball player Diego Aragon poses with the NAIA national championship trophy with father Kieth on May 30, 2025 after helping LSU Shreveport finish 59-0 in a record-setting season.
Perfection on the diamond includes a familiar name in Fort Collins and Northern Colorado baseball.
The LSU Shreveport baseball team finished off a perfect 59-0 season and national championship May 30 with a 13-7 win over Southeastern University in the NAIA World Series championship game in Lewiston, Idaho.
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It's believed to be the first perfect season and longest winning streak at any level of collegiate baseball.
And former Fort Collins High School player Diego Aragon was right in the center of the dogpile.
The fifth-year senior was an everyday player for the Pilots, hitting .346 with a .476 on-base percentage in 54 games.
Even better? Aragon was named to the All-Tournament team at catcher after going 4-for-11 with seven RBIs, four walks plus a double and a triple in the Pilots' four World Series games.
He was a key part of an absolutely dominant season rarely seen at any level of baseball.
LSU Shreveport outscored World Series opponents 49-17, won 27 total games by double digits and eight more by at least 15 runs. It was also the school's first national championship in any sport.
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Aragon was the Pilots' primary catcher, committing just two errors all season for a .995 fielding percentage.
The super senior got his start in Fort Collins, playing for the Lambkins from 2017-19 before the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled his senior season.
Aragon began his college career at Indian Hills Community College before transferring to LSU Shreveport before the 2023 season. He gradually earned a bigger role the last two seasons before a sensational senior campaign, when he hit 7 homers with 14 doubles and 46 RBIs.
Aragon is the son of Keith, a former Colorado State player and longtime softball head coach and baseball assistant at Fort Collins High School. Younger sisters Tyla and Tatum have been softball standouts for the Lambkins, while younger brother Niko is a rising baseball junior at FCHS.
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Diego celebrated on the field with Keith after the game, posing together for a photo with the championship trophy.
The Pilots broke the NAIA-record winning percentage of .935, set when Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) went 43-3 in 1996.
The NCAA Division I record is the .914 mark compiled by Arizona State (64-6) in 1972.
Chris Abshire covers high school and community sports for the Coloradoan.
This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Fort Collins native plays key role in LSU Shreveport baseball's 59-0 run
