2015 Baseball Academic All-District TeamsBLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Illinois Wesleyan senior pitcher
Dan Truesdale and junior first baseman
Matthew Mardis have been elected to the Capital One Academic All-District® 7 baseball team and will be on the ballot for the Capital One Academic All-America® Team, where first, second, and third-team All-America honorees will be elected later this month.
The 2015 Capital One Academic All-District® Baseball Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.
Truesdale (Tinley Park, Ill., Andrew HS) has a 3.88 grade-point average as a political science and economics major. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Lambda Delta and Omicron Delta Epsilon economics honorary.
He has a 2-0 record with seven saves and a 0.92 earned run average. The seven saves is 19th in the national Division III rankings and tied for second most in an IWU campaign while his 19 appearances is tied for sixth most.
He is the all-time leader at the school with 58 pitching appearances and is tied for third with nine career saves.
Mardis (Bloomington, Ill., HS) carries a 3.89 GPA as a mathematics major. He is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta first year honor society and Omicron Delta Epsilon economics honorary.
He has a team-high .379 batting average with 10 doubles, one home run and 28 runs batted in. His .427 on-base percentage is tied for the team lead and he has committed only two errors in 348 chances for a .994 fielding percentage.
The District 7 team includes players from Division III schools in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Since the program began in 1970, Illinois Wesleyan has had 116 Academic All-American selections, a total that is for 17th among all participating colleges and universities, regardless of NCAA division.
The Academic All-District® teams 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.
