2020 CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams
INDIANAPOLIS – For the fifth straight season, Carson-Newman baseball can tout a College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Baseball Academic All-District 3 team selection as junior outfield Tyler Thompson was honored Thursday.
Greg Valentine took home the laurel in 2019 following a list of players in recent memory. Brandon Roberts secured the honor in 2016, Paul Kirby was tabbed in 2017 and Dillon Cate in 2018. Kirby and Cate were later honored as Academic All-Americans joining Brandon Burchfield in 2006 and 2007 as C-N baseball athletes earning the nation's top academic-athlete honor.
With a 3.53 grade-point average in biology, the Gallatin, Tenn. native is one of 10 players from the South Atlantic Conference to earn the award out of the 12-member team consisting of student-athletes from the Southeast Region.
Once again one of the top hitters in the country, Thompson ranked fifth in the country in hits racking up 39 leading the team with 11 multi-hit efforts and pacing the crew with five multi-RBI outings. The outfielder produced 60 total bases in the shortened season to rank 20th in the country.
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Over 25 games, the preseason All-American posted a slash line of .379/.422/.583 with four homers, 20 RBIs, five doubles, two triples, four stolen bases and 25 runs scored. In a three-game series against No. 1 Tampa, he notched a multi-hit effort in each of the three games going 8-for-13 with two homers, three RBIs and five runs scored. That series sparked a hot close to the year where is had 10 multi-hit effort over the final 16 outings of the year going 32-for-68, .471, at the dish.
In nine conference games, the junior hit .417 posting the third-most hits in the league with 15, five of which went for extra bases. He has started 114 of the 118 games he has played in his career posting a .374 batting average with 15 homers and 79 runs batted in.
Thompson is eligible to be announced as an Academic All-American when the honors are announced in mid-June. Carson-Newman has produced 39 overall Academic All-Americans with 24 of those coming over the past six years.
The 2020 Academic All-District® Baseball Team, selected by CoSIDA, recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CoSIDA Academic All-America® program separately recognizes soccer honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
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