2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NCAA Division III Baseball Team Announced

Mike Aiello of UW-Whitewater Headlines 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NCAA Division III Baseball Teams

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AUSTIN, Texas – Catcher Mike Aiello of Wisconsin-Whitewater headlines the 2019 Google Cloud All-America® Division III baseball teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Aiello has been selected as the recipient of the Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year award for Division III baseball. Aiello recently received his master’s degree from UW-Whitewater in professional studies with a 4.0 cumulative GPA in the graduate program. The native of Racine, Wisconsin already earned a bachelor’s degree from UW-Whitewater in physical education. He completed his undergraduate work with a 4.0 cumulative GPA as he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Aiello posted a .339 (56-of-165) batting average this season, helping lead UW-Whitewater to a Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championship, a WIAC Tournament title and a NCAA Division III Tournament bid. He tallied eight doubles, eight home runs, scored 46 runs and drove in 33 runs as a starter in all 47 games for the Warhawks. Aiello earned first team all-conference recognition this season from the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC). He picked up second team All-Midwest region recognition from both the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and D3baseball.com. The three-year starting catcher was the 2019 WIAC Baseball Max Sparger Scholar-Athlete recipient.

Nine of the 33 members of the 2019 Google Cloud All-America® Division III Academic All-America® Division III baseball teams have a perfect 4.00 cumulative GPA. The 11 members of the first team have an average cumulative GPA of 3.97 and the 33 student-athletes that make up all three teams have an average cumulative GPA of 3.84.

Six of this year’s 33 student-athletes on the three teams are repeat selections from 2018. Rocco Maue of Case Western Reserve and Derek Manning of Elizabethtown College are on this year’s Google Cloud All-America® Division III First Team, following first team accolades last season. Widener’s Nick D’Alessandro and Ohio Northern’s Caleb Thomas, second team honorees in 2018, join Maue and Manning on this year’s first team unit. Matt Johnson of MIT is on the second team this year, following third team recognition in 2018. Penn State Behrend’s Scott Sada, a second team selection in 2018, is a third team honoree this season.

The 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 2018-19 Division III Academic All-America® teams program.

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2019 Academic All-America® Baseball Team – NCAA Division III

FIRST TEAM
Pos.	Name	School	GPA	Yr.	Major
P	Garrett Renslow	University of Rochester	3.97	Jr.	Neuroscience / Psychology
P	Christian Slattery	California Lutheran University	4	Sr.	Economics
C	Mike Aiello	Wisconsin-Whitewater	4.00/4.00	Gr.	Physical Education
IF	Ryan Enos	Oswego State	4	Jr.	Wellness Management
IF	Rocco Maue (1)	Case Western Reserve University	4	Sr.	Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
IF	Allen Murphy	St. John Fisher College	4	Jr.	Biology
IF	Doug Schaffer	Williams College	3.88	Sr.	Economics
OF	Nick D'Alessandro (2)	Widener University	4	Sr.	Chemical Engineering
OF	Connor Harding	University of Scranton	3.95	So.	Business Administration
OF	Derek Manning (1)	Elizabethtown College	4	Sr.	Computer Engineering
DH	Caleb Thomas (2)	Ohio Northern University	3.91	Sr.	Mechanical Engineering

SECOND TEAM
Pos.	Name	School	GPA	Yr.	Major
P	John Bunting	Johns Hopkins University	3.76	Sr.	International Studies & Political Science
P	Ryan Loutos	Washington University in St. Louis	3.91	So.	Computer Engineering / Math
C	Erich Lange	Wabash College	3.91	Sr.	Political Science / German
IF	Brady Ballstadt	Piedmont College	3.62	Sr.	Marketing & Management
IF	Bobby Finn	Saint Vincent	3.78	Sr.	Accounting
IF	Ted Howell	Illinois Institute of Technology	4	Jr.	Mechanical Engineering
IF	Dylan Sumpter	East Texas Baptist University	3.98/4.00	Gr.	Business Administration (UG) / Business (G)
OF	Jared Gagne	Saint Joseph's College (Maine)	3.7	Sr.	Finance & Marketing
OF	Matt Johnston (3)	MIT	3.76	Jr.	Physics
OF	Garrett Wilson	Spalding University	3.91	Jr.	Business Administration / Accounting
DH	Chase Edwards	University of the Ozarks	3.57	Jr.	Business Administration

THIRD TEAM
Pos.	Name	School	GPA	Yr.	Major
P	Danny Cody	Baldwin Wallace University	3.54	Sr.	Master's of Accounting & Finance Program
P	Phil Myers	Penn State Behrend	3.92	Sr.	Nursing
C	Casey Combs	East Texas Baptist University	3.54	Gr.	Business Management
IF	Colman Hendershot	New York University	3.78	Sr.	Sports Law
IF	Jeffrey Mayes	Aurora University	3.85	Sr.	History & Secondary Education
IF	Tim Quinlan	Utica College	3.93	Sr.	Health Studies / Physical Therapy
IF	Scott Sada (2)	Penn State Behrend	3.76	Sr.	Plastic Engineering Technology
OF	Matt Carey	Ithaca College	3.92	Sr.	Business Administration
OF	Tim Snyder	Otterbein University	3.9	Sr.	Accounting
OF	Ryan Tropeano	WPI	3.64	Sr.	Management Engineering
DH	Braeden Barr	Wisconsin-Superior	3.45	Sr.	Exercise Science

Google Cloud Academic All-America® of the Year: Mike Aiello, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

(1) – Google Cloud Academic All-America® second team selection in 2018
(2) – Google Cloud Academic All-America® third team selection in 2018
(3) – Google Cloud Academic All-America® third team selection in 2018

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Jeff Schwartz, North Dakota State University | Google Cloud Academic All-America® Co-Director for Publicity
jeff.schwartz@ndsu.edu | (701) 231-8332

Brett Marhanka, Wheaton College | Google Cloud Academic All-America® Coordinator of Publicity
brett.marhanka@wheaton.edu | (630) 752-5747