2014-15 Capital One Academic All-America® Baseball Teams release dates: 
College Division Teams: release/teams
NCAA Division III Teams: below
NCAA Division II Teams: Wed., June 3
NCAA Division I Teams: Thr., June 4
• Capital One Academic All-America® website
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AUSTIN, TEXAS – Senior shortstop John Coleman of Clarkson University headlines the 2015 Capital One Academic All-America ® Division III Baseball Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
A mathematics major with a 3.97 G.P.A., Coleman was selected as the winner of the Capital One Division III Academic All-America® of the Year award for baseball. Coleman’s selection as the Capital One Academic All-America® of the Year in baseball joins his recognition with the award in men’s basketball for 2014-15. Coleman is just the third student-athlete to be named Academic All-America® of the Year in two different sports in the same academic year, joining Drew Golz of Wheaton College (Illinois) who won the award in baseball (2012) and men’s soccer (2011) and Cynthia Capp of West Virginia Wesleyan who earned the honor in volleyball (1990) and softball (1991).
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 2014-15 Division III Academic All-America ® teams program.
A senior from Potsdam, New York, Coleman is a five-time Capital One Academic All-American, winning the award twice in baseball and three times in men’s basketball. Coleman was recently named the Liberty League Player of the Year in baseball, earning first team all-league honors. He is a four-time all-league selection by the Liberty League.
Coleman led the Golden Knights with a .437 batting average (52-for-119) this season as Clarkson posted a 24-9 record. He scored 35 runs in 2015 with 16 RBI. The leadoff hitter for Clarkson, Coleman collected eight doubles and six triples as he compiled a .605 slugging percentage. He drew 15 walks this season and posted a .525 on-base percentage.
Coleman leaves the Clarkson baseball program ranked second all-time in hits with 179 and is tied for seventh in program history in runs scored (108) and his career .352 batting average ranks sixth all-time.
Coleman, a third team honoree in 2014, is one of five individuals to earn a repeat selection to the Capital One Academic All-America® Division III baseball team.
First team selection
Andrew Yin of Wesleyan earns his third career selection this year after earning first team recognition in 2014 and third team honors in 2013. The senior infielder from Potomac, Maryland is a chemistry, molecular biology and biochemistry major with a 4.01 G.P.A. Yin helped lead Wesleyan to its second-straight NESCAC Championship as the Cardinals earned a berth into the NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament and posted a 30-11 record in 2015. He recorded 203 hits in his four-year career at Wesleyan, the second-highest hit total in school history.
Senior pitcher
Blake Stevens of Birmingham-Southern College is on the first team this year following a third team selection in 2014. Stevens is a business administration major from Atlanta, Georgia, with a 3.79 G.P.A. Stevens was recently named the D3baseball.com “Pitcher of the Year”, a first team All-American by the website and the South Region “Pitcher of the Year”. He also received ABCA/Rawlings All-American and All-Region honors this year, posting a 1.70 ERA and a 9-3 record. The 2015 Southern Athletic Association Pitcher of the Year, Stevens ranked second in Division III in strikeouts this season with 108.
Senior Brett Becker of Saint John’s University (Minn.) earns a repeat selection in 2015, after earning a third team selection as an infielder in 2014. Becker, a second team honoree this season, is an accounting major at Saint John’s with 3.75 G.P.A. The North Oaks, Minnesota, native recently earned his second career ABCA/Rawlings All-Midwest Region selection at second base. Becker hit for a .377 (52-for-138) batting average this season, with 13 stolen bases. Becker helped lead Saint John’s to the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Tournament championship and a berth into the NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament.
Second team honoree
Kyle Mellinger from Wheaton College (Ill.) is a repeat selection following third team recognition in the infield in 2014. The native of Ladera Ranch, California, is an applied health science major with a 3.95 G.P.A. Mellinger, a junior, was a third team ABCA/Rawlings All-Central region performer at first base this year. In 2015 he hit .378 (51-for-135) in 2015, with 34 runs and 28 RBI. His 18 doubles during the campaign is the second-highest single-season total in Wheaton history.
Joining Coleman, Stevens and Yin on the 2015 Capital One Academic All-America® Division III
first team are
pitcher Cory Vogeli of Misericordia University (Pa.), catchers Hank Parsley from Ferrum College and
Carthage College’s Nick Schmidlkofer, and
infielders Kerrigan Cain of Case Western Reserve University and
Parker Tew from MIT. The outfield includes
MIT’s Hayden Cornwell, Washington (Mo.) University’s Chris Lowery and
Dan Saccocio of SUNY-Oswego, while
Ty Compton from Otterbein College is the designated hitter.
Representing the Capital One Academic All-America® Division III
second team with Becker and Mellinger are
pitchers Dan Fein of Salisbury University and
Dan Scheibe from Whitworth University, along with infielders
Logan Hershey of Saint John’s (Minn.) and
Messiah College’s Joseph Saufley. The
designated hitter is Zach Keller of Frostburg State University, while
Hiram College’s Jaren Bell, Alex Holbert from Elizabethtown College and
Ryan Kemp of Wartburg College make up the outfield.
The 11-member Capital One Academic All-America® Division III
third team consists of pitchers
Tommy Bergjans of Haverford College and
Anthony Konopaski from Pacific Lutheran University and
Tufts University catcher Bryan Egan. The infield includes
Pomona-Pitzer College’s Sam Fox, Kyle Hardacker of Kenyon College, Zack Kessinger from Washington (Mo.) and
Mikole Pierce of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. The outfield consists of
Ben Buerkle from Saint Mary’s (Minn.) University, Southwestern (Texas) University’s Will Cates and
Derek Hug of Heidelberg University, while
McMurry University’s Ben Douglas is the designated hitter.
Of the 33 members of the Capital One Academic All-America ® Division III baseball team, 14 have a 3.90 G.P.A or better. Four of this year’s honorees have a perfect 4.0 G.P.A.
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Academic All-America ® Coordinator of Publicity