UD's Casanova Earn Capital One Academic All-District® Baseball Honors
May 12, 2015
The 2014-15 Capital One Academic All-District® Baseball and Softball Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. The University of Dubuque's Daniel Casanova (So., OF, Lake Tapps, Wash./Auburn Riverside HS) earned the award in baseball while Victoria Woltz (Jr., 1B, Wykoff, Minn./Chatfield HS) earned First-team Academic All-District ® honors in softball. UD was the lone Iowa Conference school to have a player named in both baseball and softball. First-team Academic All-District ® honorees advance to the Capital One Academic All-America® Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month and in early June.
Capital One has been the entitlement rights holder to CoSIDA's Academic All-America teams programs since 2011. To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 20,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.
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 fourth 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 Capital One 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 2014-15 DII and DIII Academic All-America® teams program.
BASEBALL FIRST TEAM REGION VIII
Pos. Name School Yr. Hometown GPA Major
P Anthony Konopaski PACIFIC LUTHERAN Sr. Port Angeles, Wash. 3.71 Business administration
P Dan Scheibe WHITWORTH Sr. Richland, Wash. 3.93 Psychology
C Victor Munoz OCCIDENTAL Sr. La Verne, Calif. 3.80 Kinesiology
IF Sam Fox POMONA-PITZER Sr. New York, N.Y. 3.55 Political studies / English
IF Zach Jacobs TEXAS LUTHERAN Sr. Brenham, Texas 3.97 Kinesiology
IF Eric Lawson LINFIELD Jr. Mill Creek, Wash. 3.91 Marketing
IF Mark Tumlinson REDLANDS Jr. Anaheim, Calif. 3.90 Physics / mathematics
OF Daniel Casanova DUBUQUE So. Lake Tapps, Wash. 4.00 Biology
OF Will Cates SOUTHWESTERN Jr. Cy Fair, Texas 3.75 Biochemistry
OF Ryan Kemp WARTBURG Jr. Keokuk, Iowa 3.93 Business administration
DH Ben Douglas MCMURRY Sr. Moose Jaw, Sask. 3.82 Accounting
SOFTBALL FIRST TEAM REGION VIII
Pos. Name School Yr. Hometown GPA Major
P Taylor Grissom TEXAS LUTHERAN Jr. Spring, Texas 3.86 Education
P Shelby Parker EAST TEXAS BAPTIST Gr. Brazoria, Texas 3.54 Sports & exercise leadership
C Tori Haag SIMPSON (IA) Jr. Waukee, Iowa 3.83 Global management
IF Danielle Duman LINFIELD So. Eugene, Ore. 3.86 Elementary education
IF Stephanie Hayden BUENA VISTA Sr. Prairie City, Iowa 3.98 Accounting & management
IF Ashley Jacobsen TEXAS LUTHERAN Sr. Marion, Texas 3.73 Accounting
IF Kenzie Schmoll LINFIELD So. Grants Pass, Ore. 4.00 Computer science
IF Victoria Woltz DUBUQUE, UNIVERSITY OF Jr. Wykoff, Minn. 3.96 Wellness & exercise science
OF Jacquelyn Brown TEXAS LUTHERAN Jr. Vidor, Texas 3.87 Accounting
OF Erin Lang COE So. Watertown, Wis. 3.88 Math / business administration
OF Kelsey Rose LUTHER Sr. Bettendorf, Iowa 3.77 Management / accounting
DP Megan John WHITWORTH Sr. Beaverton, Ore. 3.97 Health science
