COMPLETE CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Lesley University baseball team saw two student-athletes earn spots on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team announced by the organization this afternoon. Christian McElroy (Toms River, N.J.) and Caden Shott (Richmond, Calif.) earned their first career CSC Academic All-District honors.
To be nominated, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at her current institution. Field players must have appeared in at least 90 percent of the team's games or have started at least 66 percent of the games.
McElroy graduated this past May with a degree in Business while posting a 3.53 cumulative GPA. McElroy finished the year as one of Lesley's top hitters finishing second on the team with a career-high .361 batting average. The senior outfielder also posted career-highs in hits (44), doubles (seven), RBIs (25), on-base percentage (.414), and slugging percentage (.443). During the NAC Playoffs, McElroy was second in the entire conference with a .500 batting average throughout the tournament which earned him All-Tournament Team honors. McElroy had 15 multi-hit games on the year highlighted by his strongest hitting performance on April 5 versus VTSU Lyndon where he 3-4 while driving in three RBIs. The Senior outfielder finished with eight multi-RBI games as well and five of those contests were three-RBI games where the Lynx were 4-1. In the field, he finished with a career-high .970 fielding percentage and recorded 53 putouts while assisting on 11 plays. Thanks to his strong play this year, he was named to the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) All-Conference Second Team.
Shott is a Health Science major who had a 3.62 cumulative GPA. Shott had a great second year with Lesley as the junior third basemen posted career-highs in batting average (.377), hits (26), RBIs (12), on-base percentage (.531), and slugging (.420). In terms of where he ranked on the team in hitting categories, Shott was top five in batting average (second) and on-base percentage. Shott had eight multi-hit games including two times this year where he tied his career-high for hits in-game with three (March 11 vs. FDU Florham and May 1 at UMaine Farmington). His strongest offensive performance of the year came in a 15-0 demolishing of UMaine Farmington (May 1) where he went 3-6 and drove in two RBIs that day. Defensively, Shott posted a career-high .973 fielding percentage along with 28 putouts while assisting on 44 plays. With his strong season, he was named to the NAC All-Conference First Team.
About College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 4,400+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a membership-wide vote on August 31, 2022.
From its found in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The name change signaled a major step in a larger strategic plan to highlight the association's evolution and expansion. The move better aligns with the association's membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital and creative college sports industry, regardless of position or title.
The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.
CSC's membership first reached the 3,000 mark during the 2013-14 school year and has topped that threshold each year since with the exception of the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic year. The membership base reached 4,000 for the first time in 2022-23.
Prior to the formation of the organization as CoSIDA in the mid-1950s, sports information directors as a group were a part of the American College Public Relations Association. Most SIDs at those ACPRA meetings eventually felt that a separate organization was needed and that led to CoSIDA's formation. There were 102 members at the original meeting/convention in 1957.