HONORS & AWARDS
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Preseason All-American: 2021 (3rd Team OF)
Missouri Valley Conference Preseason MVC Player of the Year: 2021 (Collegiate Baseball, D1Baseball.com, Perfect Game)
All-MVC: 2019 (2nd Team OF), 2021 (1st Team OF)
Preseason All-MVC: 2020 (OF), 2021 (OF)
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper National Players of the Week (2): April 22, 2019; March 2, 2020
Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week (3): April 22, 2019; Feb. 24, 2020; March 2, 2020
Bradley Baseball A.J. Robertson Award (MVP): 2021
Bradley Tim Trunk Award (Most Improved Player): 2018
Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete: 2020 (1st Team)
Bradley Scholar-Athlete of the Week: 04-07-21, 03-18-20
MVC Honor Roll (4): 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Bradley Athletic Director's Honor Roll (4): Spring '17, Fall '17, Spring '18, Spring '19
AT BRADLEY (2017-21)
• One of nine Bradley players from the greater Peoria Tri-County region to join the Braves for the 2017 season, Bolt appeared in 151 games during his five-year career.
• Finished his career sixth in Bradley history with 32 career home runs.
• Among all-time Bradley players with at least 300 career at-bats, Bolt finished his career tied for third with a .438 career on-base percentage and seventh with a .570 slugging percentage.
• Opened his 2020 senior season on a torrid power pace, smashing seven home runs with 15 RBIs during Bradley's 10 games before the season was halted.
• Ranked fourth nationally with 0.7 home runs per game and sixth with a .881 slugging percentage in the abbreviated 2020 season.
• After earning Bradley Baseball's Tim Trunk Award as the team's most improved player in 2018, Bolt enjoyed a breakout season as a junior in 2019, capped by earning All-Missouri Valley Conference second-team honors.
• Bolt's performance in the 2018 MVC Tournament at Dallas Baptist was a foreshadowing of things to come: 3-for-7 with two walks, three home runs and six RBI in his two postseason games.
• Bolt reached base safely in the final 27 games of the 2019 regular season, the longest on-base streak of the season for the Braves, and he led the team with a .595 slugging percentage, .453 on-base percentage and 1.048 OPS.
• Bolt’s 1.048 OPS in 2019 was Bradley’s best since Mike Tauchman’s 1.110 during his Joe Carter MVC Player-of-the-Year season in 2013, as well as Bradley’s best slugging percentage (.595) since Max Murphy slugged .598 in 2015.
• Bolt and Dallas Baptist slugger Bryce Ball (1.057) were the only two Valley players to finish the 2019 season with a four-digit OPS.
• Named one of Collegiate Baseball’s National Players of the Week April 22, 2019 while also earning Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week honors.
• Compiled five 4-hit games in his career, equaling the most of any Bradley player since 1990.
AT MORTON H.S.
• A three-year varsity letterwinner for the Potters, Bolt earned all-state honors as a senior in 2016 and was a two-time (2015, 216) All-Mid Illini and Peoria Journal Star All-Area selection.
• Also played basketball at Morton, earning second-team all-conference honors as a senior.
• Helped the Potters hoop squad to a regional title in 2014.
PERSONAL
• The son of Pete Bolt III and Lisa Bolt, Dan was born April 27, 1998 in Peoria.
• Younger brother, Andrew.
