 He was named to the "Baseball America" all-Freshman team in after batting .354 with 46 home runs and 109 runs batted in (RBI) and was All-Western Athletic Conference in , hitting .381 with 13 home runs and 69 RBI.Ludwick had a .363 career batting average at UNLV.Ludwick was chosen in the second-round (60th overall) of the 1999 Major League Baseball draft by the Oakland Athletics.