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On Wednesday, Troy University Baseball coach Skylar Meade was announced as the USA Baseball Doc Counsilman Science Award recipient.

The Doc Counsilman Science Award is presented in conjunction with the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Baseball and goes to a coach that “utilizes scientific techniques and equipment as an integral part of their coaching methods or has created innovative ways to use sports science.”

Meade served as pitching coach this summer on the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team and the first Collegiate National Team coach to ever receive the award.

“Being awarded the ‘Doc’ Counsilman award is quite an honor,” Meade said. “This summer was an unreal experience with USA Baseball and all of the great people involved. I would like to thank Eric Campbell, Allison Gupton, all the players and Jose Vasquez especially for allowing me to work with the great players representing the red, white and blue this summer.”

Meade utilized data provided by PDP Performance Assessments and Rapsodo to lead Team USA to a five-game sweep of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) and a win over the Team USA Summer League Tour roster.

Over the course of the six games, Meade’s pitching staff earned a 1.12 ERA and held opponents to a .146 batting average, while tallying 62 strikeouts and giving up just 18 walks. USA’s pitchers also earned two shutouts and a combined no-hitter against Taiwan on July 2.

Troy catcher Brooks Bryan also competed for Team USA during the summer series. Meade, Bryan and the Troy Trojans will start the 2025 season on Feb. 14-15, 2025, at home in a series against St. Louis.