QUINCY, Ill. – The 2016 College Sports Information Directors of America CoSIDA Academic All-District™ Baseball Teams have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.
Three Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) baseball student-athletes were named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District™ Baseball Teams. Ashland junior Brandyn Sittinger along with Wayne State teammates junior Griffin Harms and sophomore JT Conti achieved this academic distinction.
| 2016 CoSIDA Baseball Academic All-District Teams | ||||||
| First Team | ||||||
| Pos. | Name | School | Yr. | Hometown | GPA | Major |
| P | Brandyn Sittinger | Ashland | Jr. | LaGrange, Ohio | 3.60 | Sports Management |
| OF | Griffin Harms | Wayne State | Jr. | Bingham Farms, Mich. | 3.67 | Finance |
| DH | JT Conti | Wayne State | So. | Trenton, Mich. | 3.35 | Business Management |
Griffin Harms has started all 43 games and leads the team in hitting (.398), home runs (5), RBI (42), slugging percentage (.658), total bases (106), outfield assists (5) and ranks second with 34 runs, 21 doubles and a .476 on-base percentage. He has been named GLIAC North Division Player of the Week on two occasions. The finance major carries a 3.67 GPA.
JT Conti, a business management major with a 3.35 GPA, has started 36 games this season and is hitting .376 with two home runs, 15 doubles and 27 RBI. The two-way player is also 2-1 with a 4.56 ERA in 23 and 2/3 innings. He is slugging .534 and has scored 23 runs, while collecting 71 total bases. Playing primarily at first base on defense he has posted a .986 fielding percentage.
In 2016, Brandyn Sittinger is 9-0 in 11 appearances (10 starts), and leads the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in earned-run average (2.58), wins, strikeouts (98) and strikeouts per nine innings (13.30). Through May 1, Sittinger was third in Division II in strikeouts per nine innings, tied for 10th in wins and 11th in strikeouts. Sittinger sports a 3.60 cumulative grade-point average in Sport Management.
The Academic All-District™ teams include the student-athletes listed on the following pages and are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. This is the fifth year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moved from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I) and has doubled the number of scholar-athletes honored. The expanded teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division Academic All-America® Team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.
The Division II and III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2015-16 DII and DIII Academic All-America® teams program.
First-team Academic All-District™ honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
For more information about the Academic All-District™ and Academic All-America® Teams program, please visit www.cosida.com.
