Yamasaki, Cook, Soto garner Academic All-District Team honors

GREENWOOD, Indianapolis – Hawai’i Hilo Baseball’s James Yamasaki, Mason Cook and Arthur Soto garnered Academic All-District Team honors as selected and announced Tuesday by the College Sports Communicators.

The CSC Academic All-America/District program recognizes the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom, requiring a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher (sophomore standing and above) and participation in at least 90 percent of games played during the season (or 66 percent as a starter). For baseball, pitchers are eligible with a minimum 17 appearances or 25.0 total innings pitched.

New nomination criteria for the 2023-24 school year allows transfer student-athletes to be eligible by combining GPA attained at previous institutions.

Academic All-District/America Program

Founded in the mid 1950s, the highly regarded Academic All-America selected by College Sports Communicators program is unquestionably regarded as the premier awards program in intercollegiate athletics for honoring combined academic and athletic excellence. As CSC’s signature program, it has been presented a federal registration brand mark for “Academic All-America and Academic All-American” meaning that it is the sole organization that can refer to an awards program which includes that brand mark/name.

CSC members nominate and vote for Academic All-America teams in 16 sport contests in all NCAA and NAIA divisions including men’s soccer, women’s soccer, football, volleyball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s swimming and diving, women’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, baseball, softball, men’s at-large, women’s at-large, men’s track and field and women’s track and field. A College Division At-Large program recognizes teams in all other divisions.