When he accepted the Dick Howser Trophy as the nation’s Player of the Year on Friday in Omaha, Nebraska, Clemson’s Seth Beer was thrilled. He was thrilled for his family, his Clemson teammates and for his coaches.

It was a special moment as he became the first freshman to ever win College Baseball’s biggest individual prize. And though he will always treasure that moment, Beer has plans to get back to Omaha one day and it’s not to just hoist the Dick Howser Trophy, again.

The next time he is here, he wants to share it with his Clemson teammates as participates in the College World Series, and that can be as soon as next year.

“My goal this upcoming year is to do whatever I can as a player and as a person, I know Coach (Monte) Lee has the same feeling, but let’s do whatever it takes to get us here,” Beer said in an exclusive interview with The Clemson Insider on Friday. “Now that I kind of have a taste of what it is like, the next time I want be here wearing Clemson colors—Orange and Purple—and being able to represent those colors as one of these teams.”

To get back to Omaha, Beer will have to adjust to a new position first. Lee will move the All-American from right field to first base in the fall because he feels it is the best path for Beer to take in order to make it to the Major Leagues.

This will not be the first time Beer has played first base. He played it a lot last summer on his travel team, and he more than likely will play it this summer as a member of Team USA.

“It is not like a whole new position for me. Obviously, it will take some getting used to. You have bigger, stronger, faster guys hitting the ball so the ball is going to be moving a little harder,” Beer said. “I think I just have to mentally prepare myself for it. It is going to be a very good opportunity, for not only me, but for our team. I’m taking it that away, as well as any advice Coach Lee or Coach (Bradley) LeCroy or Coach (Greg) Starbuck can give me when it comes to first base.”

Beer says when he watches Major League Baseball games he is paying attention to what every first baseman is doing.

“I’m looking at what they are doing in certain situations. I’m already trying to prepare myself the best I can because if I can play first base, or wherever I might play, I want it to be in the best situation for our team,” he said. “Whatever role that might be. I want to fill that and do my best there.”

Beer will head out to Los Angeles, California on June 26 to begin working out for Team USA. They will stay there and play a couple of games before flying to Japan, Chinese Taipei and then Cuba to play more games.

“They have some great programs and everyone has a different style of baseball. I get to see what this game is like internationally so I’m really excited about it,” Beer said. “We all play the same game, but we all play it differently so it is going to be an awesome experience for me to compete with other great collegiate players from other countries. I’m just really excited about it.”

Beer feels he can learn a lot from this experience with Team USA, and these experiences might be able to help him, and his Clemson teammates, figure a way to get over the hump and get the Clemson baseball program back to the College World Series.

“I think it is one of those things where you can learn so many different ways to play the game,” he said. “We will be able to stamp that and be able to compete against it. Teams like Japan and Cuba for instance all have different things that they do to make them great teams.

“If you look at pitchers from Japan and then some of the great pitchers and players from Cuba, they all bring certain things to the table. To be able to prepare against players and teams like that can help me give advice to other players when we play other players with similar abilities in college.”

Beer says he can learn a lot from his teammates on Team USA as well.

“I think learning how to travel and to compete with some of the best of the best in the United States will be awesome,” the Clemson standout said. “To be able to rely on some of the older guys with me being the younger dude, just asking questions and getting advice from guys that have been in my shoes and shoes I’m going to be filling in the future. It’s just stuff like that. That’s what I’m really excited about.”

And he is going to bring that excitement back to Clemson so that next year, if he is accepting the Dick Howser Trophy in Omaha, again, he will be doing it with his Clemson teammates on hand.

“Honestly, it would be incredible just to experience this incredible experience with my teammates and to be able to celebrate that,” Beer said. “If I get to lift that trophy again with them, that would be great, but if I am not able to lift that trophy, and we are still in Omaha, I would be just as happy because we made a huge jump.”