2014 Capital One Academic All-America® Baseball Teams release dates: 
College Division Team: release/teams
NCAA Division III Team: below
NCAA Division II Team: Thr., May 29
NCAA Division I Team: Fri., May 30
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YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – Senior
St. Norbert College senior first baseman Travis Mason headlines the 2014 Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Baseball Team Wednesday as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Mason, a native of De Pere, Wisconsin, and a two-time first team Capital One Academic All-America® first team member, is the Capital One Academic All-America® of the Year award winner for Division III baseball.
The Capital One Division III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2013-14 Division III Academic All-America® teams program.
Mason led St. Norbert to 24 wins and a Midwest Conference championship this spring with a .355 batting average and 16 extra-base hits in 152 at-bats. He also was named to the Midwest Conference North Division first team.
Off the field, Mason has a 4.0 GPA as a business administration major and he is one of two repeat selections to the first team.
The other,
outfielder Nick Fisher from Linfield College has led the Wildcats into the NCAA Division III National Championship and a No. 2 national ranking after posting a .337 batting average and a team-best 17 doubles in 172 at-bats.
The Lake Oswego, Oregon, native has a 3.86 GPA as a mathematics major and was named as the 2014 Northwest Conference Player of the Year after hitting .331 through regional play with a league-leading nine home runs.
Mason and Fisher are two of seven seniors on the 11-player first team that includes two graduate students and two juniors. They have an average GPA of 3.87 with all 11 posting at least a 3.69 on a 4.0 scale.
One of the two juniors,
Wesleyan (Conn.) University’s Andrew Yin, has a team-best 4.02 GPA as a chemistry, molecular bio and biochemistry major. The Potomac, Maryland, native is also one of two third team honorees from 2013 making the jump to the first team this season. Yin, a second baseman, led the Cardinals into the Moosic Regional championship contest with a team-best .333 batting average as well as leading the squad in at-bats and runs.
The other junior,
Shenandoah University’s Michael Paul, earned Old Dominion Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors after helping the Hornets to a 17-3 conference record and a No. 1 seed at both the ODAC Tournament and Piedmont Regional. Paul, a 3.86 student as a mathematics major, hit .444 for the season with 62 RBI, 21 doubles and nine home runs in 178 at-bats.
The third baseman from Red Hill, Pennsylvania, is one of two ODAC members on the first team. The other,
Guilford College's John Macon Smith, was a first team All-ODAC honoree as a first baseman.
Smith, who has a 3.83 GPA as an accounting major, was named as the ODAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year in addition to his first team accolades. He led the league with a .459 batting average.
Yin, Paul and Smith join Mason as the infielders selected to the first team.
Oberlin University’s Mike McDonald is one of two first team pitchers this season after earning third team Capital One Academic All-America® accolades in 2013.
McDonald, a biochemistry/biology major from Weston, Connecticut, with a 3.93 GPA, earned first team All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors for the Yeomen after leading the team with six wins and posting a second-best-in-league 2.01 ERA. McDonald, who also hit .309 with six doubles and 18 RBI, had a third-best-in-NCAC 62 strikeouts in 2014 and was named as Oberlin’s NCAC/Stern Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Case Western Reserve graduate student John Fortunato joins McDonald as a first team honoree as a pitcher.
Fortunato has helped Case Western Reserve to a No. 20 national ranking and a runner-up finish at in the Marietta Regional with an 8-3 record (along with one save) with a 1.96 ERA in 15 appearances. Fortunato, a first team All-University Athletic Association and ABCA All-Region honoree, has a team-best three complete games this spring. The Toledo, Ohio, native is a religious studies major with a 3.84 GPA.
Trinity (Texas) University’s Pat Hirschberg, who was named to the Capital One Academic All-America® second team in 2013, and
Washington & Jefferson College’s Josh Staniscia join Fisher in the outfield.
Hirschberg, a graduate student with a 3.81 GPA as a business administration/accounting double major, was selected to both the All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference team and the SCAC All-Tournament team after helping the Tigers to an SCAC championship.
The Parker, Colo., native was second on the team with a .337 batting average and helped the Tigers to a No. 8 national ranking.
Staniscia completes the trio of outfielders after earning Presidents’ Athletic Conference MVP honors for the Presidents this spring. A biochemistry major from Export, Pennsylvania, with a 3.69 GPA, Staniscia is a four-time All-PAC honoree and led the league in hits, RBI, stolen bases and total bases.
Jonathan Hettleman of Johns Hopkins University is the team’s catcher. The Baltimore, Maryland, native has a 3.86 G.P.A. as a political science major with a minor in English. He is a teaching assistant in JHU's Public Health Department, and interned with the Baltimore Office of the Public Defender Juvenile Division in the summer of 2013. The All-Centennial Conference selection knocked in a career-best 19 RBI with a .300 batting average. He was named the Centennial Conference’s inaugural Scholar Athlete of the Year for baseball.
The final honoree, designated hitter
Derek Kanas, represents
Texas Lutheran University.
Kanas has a 3.84 GPA as a physics major was both an All-SCAC and SCAC All-Tournament selection after leading his club to a SCAC Tournament championship appearance. He co-led the team in hits and his 12 doubles paced the Bulldogs.
Ten of the 11-second team honorees are in the final season of collegiate baseball while the third team features six seniors, three juniors and three sophomores.
The second team consists of pitchers
Dante DeSantis of Penn State Behrend and
Miles Nordgren of Birmingham-Southern College; catcher Nick Flemister of St. John Fisher College; infielders Andrew Frey of Case Western Reserve, Colin Porter of York (Pa.) College, Jim Sass of SUNY Institute of Technology, and
David Stillerman of Carleton College; outfielders Billy Harkenrider of Otterbein College, Jarrod Mancine of the College of Wooster, and
Collin Radack of Hendrix College; and
designated hitter Chris Bernard of the University of Southern Maine.
Pitchers Blake Stevens of Birmingham-Southern and
Bradley Stroik of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point top the third team.
Catcher Tim Webb of Bluffton University join
infielders Brett Becker of Saint John’s (Minn.) University, John Coleman of Clarkson University, Brad Gugliotta of Baldwin-Wallace University, and
Kyle Mellinger of Wheaton (Ill.) College. Outfielders Nate Campbell of Capital University, Brandon Hannon of Emory University,
Andrew Hershey of York (Pa.), and
Neil Marshall of Buena Vista University round out the third team, along with
designated hitter Matt Mangarella of Richard Stockton College.
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To be eligible for Academic All-America ® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.
Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 20,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Michael MacEachern, Young Harris College (
mfmaceachern@yhc.edu) (706) 379-5106
Academic All-America ® Vice Co-Chair for Publicity/Communications
Scott Musa, Shenandoah University (
smusa@su.edu) (540) 665.5417
Academic All-America® Coordinator of Publicity