Austin Peay State University Athletics

Awards & Honors

Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award Top 4 Finalist: 2025
NCBWA Dick Howser Trophy Semifinalist: 2025
ASUN Player of the Year: 2025
First Team All-ASUN: 2025
ABCA/Rawlings Second Team All-Southeast Region: 2025
Second Team All-America (NCBWA): 2025
Third Team All-America (Perfect Game): 2025
2025 ASUN Player of the Week: March 3, March 31, April 14
2025 TSWA Player of the Week: April 1
2023 American Player of the Week: March 27
APSU Athletics Director’s Honor Roll: S25

2025 | Austin Peay

• Started all 59 games in left field for the Govs, finishing the season with a .422 batting average, 18 home runs, and 71 RBI.
• Ranked in the top 10 of 11 ASUN offensive categories, leading the league in batting average (5th in NCAA), on-base percentage (.520, 12th in NCAA), OPS (1.288), hits (100, 3rd in NCAA), RBI (71), and doubles (24, 5th in NCAA).
• His 100 hits tied the program record for most hits in a single season, and the third-most in the NCAA this season.
• He collected 182 total bases, which led the nation.
• Tied the program record for home runs and total bases in a single game at North Alabama (April 11), hitting three home runs and collecting 15 total bases, after going 5-for-5 with a double and four RBI.
• Finished the season with 28 multi-hit games and 16 multi-RBI games, setting a career-high six RBI in a single game against Southern Indiana (March 19) after going 4-for-5 with a pair of home runs.
• Recorded an 18-game hit streak (March 14-April 13), batting .506 (40-for-79) with eight home runs and 31 RBI in that span.

2024 | Houston

• Started 28 out of the 37 games he played in, batting .213 on the year, hitting two home runs, and collecting 15 RBI.
• Tallied 23 hits and walked 15 times with four hit-by-pitch for a .328 OBP.
• Drove in multiple runs in four different games with a season-high three RBIs against Texas State (March 1).
• Hit his first home run of the season against #9 Vanderbilt at Minute Maid Park (March 2).
• Notched three multi-hit games with a season-high three hits against St. John’s (Feb. 25).

2023 | Houston

• Played in 54 games, starting 43.
• Recorded 18 multiple-hit games and 10 multiple-RBI games.
• Against PVAMU (March 7), went 2-for-4 with two runs, three RBI and a double.
• Went 3-for-6 against Southern (March 22), with three runs, a double and a home run.
• Had his first multi-home run game against UTA (March 26).
• Logged three RBI while going 2-for-2 with one run against UCF (April 30).

2022 | Houston

• Appeared in 51 games starting 43.
• Hit .293 with 29 runs and 26 RBI.
• Had a successful stolen base percentage of 75%.
• Had nine games with two or more hits. 
• Recorded a seven-game hit streak.
• Recorded a ten-game streak with reaching base at least one time.
• Finished the season with the highest on-base percentage on the team, .413.
• Reached Base on Balls 25 times. 
• Finished the season with a .429 slugging percentage.
• Logged a 3-hit game. 
• Logged a 4-RBI game.
• Registered a seven-game hit streak. 
• Had a five-game streak with at least one or more RBI.
• Over a three-game stretch recording 7 RBI.
• Hit 2 Home Runs in a single game. 

Prep Career

• Prepped at Magnolia
• District MVP
• Batted .404 with three homers senior year
• District champions

Personal

• Cameron Michael Nickens is the son of Bo and Melissa Nickens
• Birthday is July 11, 2003
• Has one sister: Alexis
• Memorable athletic feat: hitting first home run in 2013