SAN ANGELO, Texas - Angelo State shortstop Zach Cohen headlined the
Lone Star Conference Baseball All-Academic Team, as the league's annual
postseason awards were announced at the championship banquet Friday
night held prior to the start of the LSC
Baseball Championship in San Angelo, Texas.
Cohen was tabbed Academic Player of the Year to headline the
All-Academic team. He was joined by Ram teammate Doug Snover, Cameron's
Brad Blummer, Eastern New Mexico's Mitch Wolfe and Luis Quiones, West
Texas A&M's Patrick Ramirez and Eric Dorton,
Texas A&M-Kingsville's Adam Aspaas, Incarnate Word's Ethan Lutz and
Abilene Christian's Travis Schuetze.
Wolfe earned all-academic honors for the third straight year, while Lutz was a repeat selection.
To be eligible for LSC academic honors, student-athletes must
carry at least a 3.30 grade point average and have reached sophomore
status both athletically and academically. The Academic Player of Year
award and All-Academic Team are selected from
the list of academically qualified players, with the league's sports
information directors voting on the basis of both academic and athletic
achievement.
2012 LSC BASEBALL ALL-ACADEMIC AWARDS
Player Team Yr. Pos. Major Hometown
Zach Cohen Angelo State Sr.
SS Biology Houston, Texas
Brad Blummer Cameron So. OF Business Mounds View, Minn.
Doug Snover Angelo State Sr. 2B Business Mgmt. Tempe, Ariz.
Mitch Wolfe Eastern New Mexico Sr. DH/1B History Litchfield Park, Ariz.
Patrick Ramirez West Texas A&M So. C Mechanical Eng. San Antonio, Texas
Adam Aspaas Texas A&M-Kingsville Sr. SP Biomedical Sciences San Marcos, Calif.
Luis Quiones Eastern New Mexico Jr. LF Finance Las Cruces, N.M.
Eric Dorton West Texas A&M Sr. OF Sports & Exer. Sciences Alamogordo, N.M.
Ethan Lutz Incarnate Word Sr. P Comp. Inf. Systems Bandera, Texas
Travis Schuetze Abilene Christian Sr. INF/RHP Physics Corpus Christi, Texas
LSC Baseball Academic Player of the Year: Zach Cohen, Angelo State