GREENWOOD, Indiana – Ryan Cho, Casey Yamauchi and James Yamasaki were named to the 2023 Baseball Academic All-District Team as selected and announced by College Sports Communicators Tuesday morning.
The Academic All-District Team as selected by College Sports Communicators recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. To be eligible, a student-athlete must have played in at least 50 percent of the team's games (or pitched 10.0 innings) with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) and completed one full calendar year at their current institution.
Academic All-District Team honorees advance to the Academic All-America ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced June 7.
College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 3,200+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada.
From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
College Sports Communicators has two primary missions as it seeks to have its profession, organization and membership take its rightful leadership role within the decision-making levels of the intercollegiate athletics community:
- Assist communications and public relations professionals at all collegiate levels with professional development and continuing education, helping its members deal in a strategic and effective manner with the various issues, challenges and opportunities that exist within the fast-paced and ever-changing collegiate communications environment.
- Play a significant leadership and resource role within the overall collegiate athletics enterprise, thus helping other management groups and their respective memberships deal with the set of communications-based issues that is the most complex and challenging in history.
Academic All-America and Academic All-America Hall of Fame Programs
Founded in the mid 1950s, the highly regarded Academic All-America selected by College Sports Communicators program is unquestionably regarded as the premier awards program in intercollegiate athletics for honoring combined academic and athletic excellence. As CSC's signature program, it has been presented a federal registration brand mark for "Academic All-America and Academic All-American" meaning that it is the sole organization that can refer to an awards program which includes that brand mark/name.
CSC fully manages and administers the Academic All-America® program across all divisions of play (NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA, Canadian and Two-Year institutions) and the Academic All-America® Hall of Fame.
CSC members nominate and vote for Academic All-America® teams in 16 sport contests in all NCAA and NAIA divisions including men's soccer, women's soccer, football, volleyball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's swimming & diving, women's swimming & diving, men's tennis, women's tennis, baseball, softball, men's at-large, women's at-large, men's track & field and women's track & field. A College Division At-Large program recognizes teams in all other divisions.
The Division II and III CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2022-23 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA national office.
