Four SAC Baseball Players Named to 2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-America Teams

July 27, 2021

ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) - The 2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division II baseball teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) where announced today with four South Atlantic Conference student-athletes being named to the All-America teams.

The Division II Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structure to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2020-21 Division II Academic All-America® program.

Sixteen of the 33 members of the 2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division II Baseball teams have at least a 3.80 GPA, with eight student-athletes maintaining a perfect 4.00 GPA. The 12 members of the first team have an average GPA of 3.71.

Leading the way for the SAC were two-time selections Daulton Martin of Tusculum and Hunter Shepherd of Catawba, both first team selections, while Anderson's Christian Carpenter was a second team selection and Tusculum's Bryson Ford was a third team selection.

For more information on the Academic All-America® program, go to https://academicallamerica.com/.

2020-21 Academic All-America ® Baseball Team - NCAA Division II

FIRST TEAM

Pos.	Name	School	GPA	Yr.	Major
P	Michael Krauza	Mercyhurst University	3.92 / 4.00	Gr.	Organizational Leadership
P	Chase Plymell	University of Central Missouri	3.97 / 4.00	Gr.	Sport Management (G)
P	Jeff Taylor	Millersville University	3.59	Sr.	Sports Business
C	Spencer Bramwell (2)	Colorado Mesa University	3.50	Sr.	Health & Fitness Promotion
IF	Jake Anderson	Univ. of Colorado Colorado Springs	3.52	Sr.	Criminal Justice
IF	RobertAnthony Cruz	Biola University	3.94	Jr.	Christian Ministries
IF	Daulton Martin (1)	Tusculum University	3.53 / 3.80	Gr.	Business Management (UG) / Business Admin. (G)
IF	Hunter Shepherd (3)	Catawba College	3.66 / 3.67	Gr.	Sports Management
OF	Casey Dykstra	Azusa Pacific University	3.52	Jr.	Kinesiology
OF	Tommy Pellis	Seton Hill University	3.86 / 3.78	Gr.	Business Administration (UG) / MBA
OF	Joey Werner	Minnesota State University, Mankato	3.69	Sr.	Finance
DH	Haydn McGeary	Colorado Mesa University	3.42	Jr.	Accounting

SECOND TEAM

Pos.	Name	School	GPA	Yr.	Major
P	Christian Carpenter	Anderson University	4.00 / 4.00	Gr.	Organizational Leadership
P	Logan Soole (1)	Metropolitan State University of Denver	3.95	Sr.	Physical Education
P	Marshall Thompson	Lander University	4.00 / 4.00	Gr.	Management
C	Scott Wolverton	University of Central Missouri	3.87	Sr.	Agricultural Science
IF	John Gonzalez	Northwest Nazarene University	4.00 / 4.00	Gr.	MBA
IF	Casey Henderson	Auburn University at Montgomery	4.00 / 4.00	Gr.	Kinesiology
IF	Anthony Stehlin	Concord University	3.78	Sr.	Business Administration / Accounting
IF	Dusty Stroup	University of Central Missouri	3.31	Sr.	BSBA Marketing
OF	Vaun Brown	Florida Southern College	3.89 / 3.89	Gr.	MBA
OF	Roury Glanton	Lander University	4.00	Sr.	Management
OF	Chris Mathieu	University of Illinois Springfield	3.66 / 4.00	Gr.	MBA
OF	Niko Piazza	Metropolitan State University of Denver	3.84 / 3.92	Gr.	Professional Accountancy
DH	Kal Youngquist	University of Illinois Springfield	3.61	Sr.	Business Administration

THIRD TEAM

Pos.	Name	School	GPA	Yr.	Major
C	Ben Johnson	Northwest Nazarene University	3.98	Sr.	Biology / Pre-Med
IF	Luis Dominguez	Wheeling University	3.76	Sr.	Exercise Science
IF	Bryson Ford	Tusculum University	3.60 / 3.85	Gr.	Sport Management (UG) / Business Admin. (G)
IF	Will Hayes	Missouri University of Science & Technology	3.75	Jr.	Mechanical Engineering
IF	Matt McDermott	University of Colorado Colorado Springs	3.43 / 3.58	Gr.	Sport Management (UG) / MBA (G)
IF	Will Riley	Montana State University at Billings	3.72	Sr.	Health / Human Performance
OF	Micah Evans	University of Central Missouri	3.60 / 3.55	Gr.	Mathematics (G)
OF	Cole Swiger (3)	Bloomsburg University	3.55 / 3.83	Gr.	Business Administration (MBA)
DH	Joseph Kim (2)	Azusa Pacific University	3.92 / 3.88	Gr.	Accounting / Professional Accountancy

CoSIDA Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year: Haydn McGeary, Colorado Mesa University

(1) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® first team selection in 2019-20

(2) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® second team selection in 2019-20

(3) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® third team selection in 2019-20