FGCU's Mario Leon Highlights @ASUNBSB All-Academic Team
FGCU's Mario Leon Highlights @ASUNBSB All-Academic Team
Full Baseball All-Academic Team
LakePoint, Ga. - The ASUN Conference awarded the 2018 ASUN Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year award to FGCU's Mario Leon, announced Tuesday by the conference office at the ASUN Baseball Championship banquet. Leon is joined by 12 student-athletes on the All-Academic Team and marks the first time an FGCU baseball student-athlete has garnered ASUN Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors.
Leon, a senior from Naples, Fla., made 14 starts on the mound for the Eagles in 2018. He posted five victories and finished the season with a 3.05 ERA. The senior struck out 83 batters in 82.2 innings of work this season. He ranked sixth in the ASUN in strikeouts and posted a 9.04 K/9 ratio as one of the Eagles regular weekend rotation arms. In the classroom, Leon owns a perfect 4.00 cumulative GPA earning a Masters in Public Administration.
Three teams featured three student-athletes each on the 2018 ASUN Baseball All-Academic Team. Jacksonville, NJIT and Stetson tied for the most student-athletes on the team. Lipscomb, North Florida and USC Upstate each had one selection to round out the 13-person team.
The All-Academic Team recognizes student-athletes who excel both on the field and in the classroom and exemplify the ASUN's mission of Building Winners for Life. All the members of the team boast a 3.30 cumulative grade point average or better and participated in at least half of their team's games.
ASUN CONFERENCE BASEBALL ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM
- * Mario Leon, FGCU (Senior | 4.00 | Masters in Public Administration)
- *^ Angel Camacho, Jacksonville (Junior | 3.86 | Kinesiology)
- * Chris Lehane, Jacksonville (Senior | 3.90 | Sports Business)
- *% Lee Solomon, Lipscomb (Senior | 3.61 | Law, Justice & Society)
- * Brian Sondergard, NJIT (Senior | 3.95 | Masters in Mechanical Engineering)
- *^ Kevin Hickey, USC Upstate (Senior | 3.98 | Business)
- ^ Evan Fernandez, Jacksonville (Junior | 3.80 | Management)
- Sean Lubreski, NJIT (Junior | 3.84 | Communications)
- ^ Jesse Uttendorfer, NJIT (Senior | 3.56 | Business Administration)
- Tanner Murphy, North Florida (Sophomore | 3.96 | Accounting)
- ^ Logan Gilbert, Stetson (Junior | 3.34 | Business Systems & Analytics)
- Andrew MacNeil, Stetson (Sophomore | 4.00 | Biology)
- Mitchell Senger, Stetson (Sophomore | 3.50 | Sport Business)
* - Denotes a unanimous selection to the All-Academic Team
^ - Denotes two-time All-Academic selection
% - Denotes three-time All-Academic selection
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