May 8, 2008

A pair of University of Dayton baseball players were honored as ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District selections following voting from members of the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday.

Scott Dunwoody was a First Team pick at catcher while Kevin Miller was a Second Team selection in the outfield from District IV. Dunwoody will advance to the National ballot for Academic All-America honors that are scheduled to be announced on Tuesday, May 27.

Dunwoody, a junior from Columbia, MO, holds a 3.40 cumulative GPA as a finance major. He has started 47 of the team's 49 games behind the plate this season and is currently tied for third on the Flyer roster with a .297 team batting average. Dunwoody is fourth on the team in runs scored (27) and tied for fifth in RBI (24). He has also laid down 10 sacrifice bunts and holds a .346 on base percentage while batting second in the lineup. Dunwoody has also thrown out 19 of 62 (.306) would be base stealers this season.

Miller, a senior from Indianapolis, IN, already holds an undergraduate degree from UD in Marketing and has a 3.56 GPA in his pursuit of an MBA. He is in the midst of the best year of his career with a .354 batting average this season after entering 2008 with a .207 career average. Miller leads Dayton with a .443 on base percentage and is fifth with 25 runs scored from the leadoff spot in the order. He is also third on the team with 34 RBI and leads all Flyers with three outfield assists.

The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) selects Academic All-America teams in 12 programs: football, women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's track & field/cross country, women's track & field/cross country, men's at-large and women's at-large.

To be nominated, the student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) for his/her career. No athlete is eligible until he/she has reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution (thus, true freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible transfers are not eligible). In the cases of transfers, graduate students and junior college graduates, the athlete must have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution to be eligible.