Awarded for | the yearly outstanding college baseball Academic All-America team member |
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Country | United States & Canada |
Presented by | College Sports Communicators |
History | |
Most recent |
Jake Gelof,
Virginia Alex Epp, William Jewell Tyler Horvat, Washington & Jefferson Eric Maffie, St. Francis (IL) |
Next award announcement | July 2, 2024 |
Website | Official site |
The following is a list of the annual selection by College Sports Communicators (CSC), known before the 2022–23 season as the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), and its Academic All-America sponsor of the individual athlete selected as the most outstanding of the annual Baseball Academic All-America selections. Between 1996 and 2011, one winner each was chosen from both the college and University Divisions for all twelve Academic All-America teams including football. The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes. The University Division team included eligible participants from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I member schools, while the College Division team included scholar-athletes from all of the following: NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), Canadian universities and colleges and two-year schools.
Beginning in 2012, CSC revamped its award structure. The University Division was renamed "Division I". Since then, NCAA Divisions II and III have had their own separate All-Americans. The College Division consisted only of non-NCAA institutions through the 2017–18 school year, after which it was effectively replaced by an NAIA division restricted to members of that governing body. [1] [a]
Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. [2] The districts are as follows: – District 1 ( CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT), District 2 ( DC, DE, KY, MD, NJ, PA, WV), District 3 ( NC, TN, VA), District 4 ( AL, FL, GA, PR, SC), District 5 ( IL, IN, MI, OH), District 6 ( AR, IA, LA, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, SD, WI, WY), – District 7 ( CO, ID, KS, NE, NM, NV, OK, TX), District 8 ( AK, AZ, CA, HI, OR, UT, WA, Canada). [3] First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams (men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track & field, men's baseball, women's softball, men's American football, women's volleyball and men's and women's at-large teams) have four Academic All-Americans of the Year, one from each division. In each of the four divisions (NAIA, Division I, Division II, and Division III), one of the twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-Americans of the Year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for that division. [4]
As of January 31, 2024 [update], Johns Hopkins University (31) has had the most baseball Academic All-America honorees, just ahead of Bucknell University and Notre Dame University with 30 each. [5] While Bucknell has had an athlete win this award, neither Notre Dame's nor Johns Hopkins' athletes have been recognized with this award. [6]
On August 7, 2012, Division III honoree Drew Golz of Wheaton College became the first Baseball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year to be named Division III Academic All-America Team Member of the Year. That same year Golz had been named Men's Soccer Academic All-America Team Member of the Year, becoming the first male student-athlete to be named Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for two different sports in the same year. [7] The next day, Division II honoree Bryan Lippincott of Concordia University, St. Paul became the Division II Academic All-America Team Member of the Year. [8] Thus, for the 2011–12 academic calendar, baseball had the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for two of the four Divisions. The most recent baseball awardee that was named overall Academic All-America Team Member of the Year is John Coleman of Division III Clarkson University. Like Golz, Clarkson was named Academic All-America Team Member of the Year, having been previously named Academic All-America Team Member of the Year in basketball. Coleman was the third and second male two-sport honoree, following Golz in 2011–12 and Cynthia Capp of West Virginia Wesleyan who earned the honor in volleyball (1990) and softball (1991). [9]
When the Division I level was known as the University Division, it had repeat back-to-back winners in 2000 & 2001 and 2002 & 2003 with Casey Myers (of Arizona State Sun Devils baseball) [10] [11] being followed by Jeff Leise (of Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball). [12] [13] In 2001 and 2002, Douglas Hargett of University of North Alabama was the first College Division repeat winner before the College Division was split. [11] [12] Since Division II and Division III were split from NAIA, two-year and Canadian schools, Conner Combs repeated for the Division III East Texas Baptist Tigers in 2016 and 2017. [14] [15]
Names in bold indicate winners of the all-sports Academic All-America award.
Year | University Division Winner | School | College Division Winner | School | ||
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1988 | Wesley Bliven [16] | Santa Clara | Greg Slappey [16] | Georgia Southwestern | ||
1989 | Burke Masters [16] | Mississippi State | Bill Holmes [16] | Marietta | ||
1990 | Joe Markulike [16] | Bucknell | Sittichoke Huckuntod [16] | Central Missouri | ||
1991 | Joey Hamilton [16] | Mississippi State | Kevin Kluemper [16] | Rose–Hulman | ||
1992 | Charlie Giaudrone [16] | Wichita State | Howard Forman [16] | Trenton State | ||
1993 | Aaron Gries [16] | Evansville | Matt Cannon [16] | Aurora | ||
1994 | Tommy Minor [16] | Fresno State | Eric Miller [16] | Pittsburg State | ||
1995 | Mike Drumwright [16] | Wichita State | Matt Kechely [16] | Nebraska Wesleyan | ||
1996 | Clint Bryant [16] | Texas Tech | Brian Mazurek [16] | St. Francis Fighting Saints baseball | ||
1997 | Andy Matko [16] | Wright State | Bryan Welder [16] | Augustana (IL) | ||
1998 | Charley Carter [16] | Baylor | James Rinne [16] | Illinois Wesleyan | ||
1999 | Hunter Bledsoe [16] | Vanderbilt | David Bradley [16] | Marietta | ||
2000 | Casey Myers [16] [10] | Arizona State | Andy Reeb [16] [10] | St. Francis (IL) | ||
2001 | Casey Myers [16] [11] | Arizona State | Douglas Hargett [16] [11] | North Alabama | ||
2002 | Jeff Leise [16] [12] | Nebraska | Douglas Hargett [16] [12] | North Alabama | ||
2003 | Jeff Leise [16] [13] | Nebraska | Kyle Foster [16] [13] | Emory | ||
2004 | Wade Townsend [16] | Rice | Brady Endl [16] | Wisconsin–Whitewater | ||
2005 | Chris Looze [16] | George Mason | Eric Cirella [16] | Salve Regina | ||
2006 | Philip Coker [16] | Charleston | Adam Deurfeldt [16] | Central (IA) | ||
2007 | Aaron Ivey [16] | Oklahoma | Casey Jirsa [16] | Ashland | ||
2008 | Buster Posey [16] | Florida State | Gabe MacDougall [16] | Lynn | ||
2009 | Michael Leake [16] | Arizona State | Jon Alia [16] | Cal State Dominguez Hills | ||
2010 | Jim Klocke [16] | Southeast Missouri State | Matt Schuld [16] | St. Thomas (MN) | ||
2011 | Matt Rice [16] | Western Kentucky | Brian Lippincott [16] | Concordia (MN) |
Year | Div. I Winner | School | Div. II Winner | School | Div. III Winner | School | College/NAIA Winner [b] | School | ||||
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2012 | James Ramsey [16] | Florida State | Brian Lippincott [16] | Concordia (MN) | Drew Golz [16] | Wheaton (IL) | Chad Carman [16] | Oklahoma City | ||||
2013 | LB Dantzler [16] | South Carolina | Taylor Rakes [16] | Tusculum | Brandon Toughey [16] | Baldwin Wallace | Alan Spanel [16] | Doane | ||||
2014 | Tim Colwell [16] | North Dakota State | Austin Kaiser [16] | Colorado Mesa | Travis Mason [16] | St. Norbert | EJ Grochowalsk [16] | Davenport | ||||
2015 | Sam Koenig [17] | Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Michael Jurgella [18] | St. Cloud State | John Coleman [19] | Clarkson | Josh DeGraaf [20] | Taylor | ||||
2016 | Cole Gruber [21] | Nebraska Omaha | Christian Binger [22] | Southwest Baptist | Conner Combs [14] | East Texas Baptist | Alex Webb [23] | British Columbia | ||||
2017 | Ben Fisher [24] | Eastern Kentucky | Tyler Falk [25] | Clarion | Conner Combs [15] | East Texas Baptist | Glen McClain [26] | Indiana Tech | ||||
2018 | Devlin Granberg [27] | Dallas Baptist | Jacob Blank [28] | Augustana (SD) | Spencer Badia [29] | Baldwin Wallace | Augie Isaacson [30] | Friends | ||||
2019 | Trevor Ezell [31] | Arkansas | Mason Janvrin [32] | Central Missouri | Mike Aiello [33] | Wisconsin–Whitewater | Glen McClain [34] | Indiana Tech | ||||
2020 | Nick Howie [35] | Eastern Kentucky | Aaron Anderson [36] | Flagler | Derek Manning [37] | Elizabethtown | Troy Puga [38] | Friends | ||||
2021 | Brendan Beck [39] | Stanford | Haydn McGeary [40] | Colorado Mesa | Matt Mulhearn [41] | Webster | Hunter Dollander [42] | Georgia Gwinnett | ||||
2022 | Aaron Anderson [43] | Liberty | Connor Hamilton [43] | Slippery Rock | Ryan Enos [43] | Oswego State | Peyton Crispin [43] | Oklahoma City | ||||
2023 | Jake Gelof [16] | Virginia | Alex Epp [16] | William Jewell | Tyler Horvat [16] | Washington & Jefferson | Eric Maffie [16] | St. Francis (IL) |