Longtime Wellington resident Shawn Steuerer has just finished a remarkable academic and athletic career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
In addition to graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics on May 22 with a 3.77 grade point average, Steueuer had a remarkable four-year career on the baseball diamond. In his four years playing third base for Johns Hopkins, the team qualified for two appearances in the NCAA’s Division III World Series, both times as the top seed.
When Steuerer was a sophomore in May 2023, Johns Hopkins advanced to the Division III World Series, which was held in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This year, Johns Hopkins also earned a bid to the Division III World Series, which was played in Eastlake, Ohio, near Cleveland. Unfortunately, in both cases, Johns Hopkins did not return to campus as the national champions.
This year’s World Series experience was tough to take, as Johns Hopkins lost its first two games in the double-elimination tournament. Entering the series, Johns Hopkins had won 26 straight games. But on May 30, in the first round of the series, Hopkins lost, 16-7, to Messiah University, and on the following day, they lost again, 5-3, to Kean University. The team finished with a record of 44-5.
“We picked a bad time and place — at the World Series — to lose two games in a row,” Steuerer said. “Baseball is a crazy game. In baseball, the best team doesn’t always win.”
Despite not winning a national title, Steuerer has many positive memories from his days playing for the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays.
“It was an incredible experience and a perfect fit for me,” said Steuerer, now 23, a 2020 graduate of the Oxbridge Academy. “I was surrounded by great coaches. My teammates were hard workers in school and on the baseball diamond.”
Steuerer’s statistical accomplishments have positioned him as one of the program’s greatest baseball players to ever wear the Johns Hopkins uniform. The team was 27-0 at home this year, largely due to contributions on offense and defense from Steuerer.
Steuerer is now the program’s all-time leader in at bats (719), total bases (520), hits (275), runs scored (215), RBIs (205), home runs (59) and doubles (54).
When Steuerer hit a two-run home run on May 3 against Swarthmore, he became the first Blue Jay and the fifth active NCAA Division III player to reach 200 RBIs and runs scored in a collegiate career.
Longtime Johns Hopkins head baseball coach Bob Babb has strong words of praise for his graduating senior.
“Shawn was our team leader both on and off the field,” Babb said. “He contributed a great deal to the program during his four-year career. He will go down as the leader in numerous offensive categories in Hopkins history. Shawn also took part in many community service projects. He is an outstanding young man who will do very well in the next phase of his life.”
A few of the honors that Steuerer earned this year include: American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings first-team All-American (2025); a three-time Academic Centennial Conference selection (2023, 2024 and 2025); and a four-time All-Centennial Conference selection (first team in 2023 and 2025; second team in 2022 and 2024).
This past season, Steuerer batted .369 with 56 RBIs, 18 walks and eight stolen bases. He was the team leader in runs scored (66). This year, he was second on the team in base hits (73), doubles (17) and home runs (17).
As Steuerer looks to his future, it won’t include baseball for the first time since he was six years old playing tee-ball.
“I was invited to play baseball in a showcase summer league, but I decided to use my degree and accept a job in New York City as an equity sales and trading associate with Oppenheimer,” Steuerer said. “I had an internship with Oppenheimer last summer, which I enjoyed.”
While he is looking forward to working for Oppenheimer, he will miss his days playing collegiate baseball.
“I wish I had another year,” Steuerer said. “Next year’s team will return some strong pitching.”
He starts his new career with Oppenheimer on Aug. 4.
