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LOOK: Tennessee baseball unveils national championship rings

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Tennessee baseball national championship rings. Credit: UT Athletics
Tennessee baseball national championship rings. Credit: UT Athletics

With the start of the 2025 season later this week, one final celebration of last summer’s national championship took place as Tennessee baseball received and handed out their College World Series national championship rings to players and staff.

The championship was the first in program history and the team received them Monday evening from head coach Tony Vitello. There are no current plans for a ring ceremony honoring the national champions this season, btu that could be something down the line.

Seen below, player’s names are listed on the side above the black jersey Tennessee wore in the College World Series Finals. On the front, National Champions are scribed on the top and bottom with Vols stretched across the national championship trophy.

Tennessee baseball national championship rings. Credit: UT Athletics

Tennessee baseball national championship rings. Credit: UT Athletics

Tennessee baseball national championship rings. Credit: UT Athletics

The Vols also received rings for winning the Southeastern Conference championships.

KNOXVILLE, TN – February 10, 2025 – bb taken in Knoxville, TN. Photo By Kate Luffman/Tennessee Athletics
KNOXVILLE, TN – February 10, 2025 – bb taken in Knoxville, TN. Photo By Kate Luffman/Tennessee Athletics

Tennessee baseball national championship and SEC championship rings. Credit: UT Athletics

Tennessee is ranked in the top-five across the board entering the new season with two publications (USA Today and NCBWA) having the Vols as high as No. 2 in the country. Vitello’s bunch was also predicted to finish second in the Southeastern Conference in 2025 with six players named to the preseason All-SEC teams.

The Vols (60-13) finished the 2024 season with the first national championship in program history and became the first team from the Southeastern Conference to eclipse the 60-win marker in a single season. Tennessee went an impressive 10-2 in the NCAA Baseball Tournament and snapped the ‘curse’ of No. 1 overall seeds not winning the title, a streak that dated back to Miami in 1999.  

Tennessee’s 60 wins last year were the most of any team since Florida State in 2002 and the most of any national champion since Wichita State in 1989. It was the second straight trip to the College World Series in Omaha for Tennessee, the third in four years and the first time the Vols played for a national title since their first trip there in 1951. 

The Vols won everything they could in 2024 – winning the SEC’s regular-season championship, the SEC Tournament championship, Knoxville Regional and Knoxville Super Regional. The team lost back-to-back games on March 16 and 17, then never lost consecutive games again. They went 7-0 while facing elimination in the SEC Tournament and NCAA Tournament, including coming back from down 0-1 in the best-of-three College World Series championship series against Texas A&M. 

Tennessee opens the 2025 season at home against Hofstra on Friday, February 14.

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