Baseball Players Stephen and Howell Earn Academic All-District Honors – Ohio State Buckeyes
5/12/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 12, 2006
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State shortstop Jedidiah Stephen and leftfielder Jacob Howell have been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District IV Baseball Team. Each player earned second-team honors as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, the organization announced Thursday.
Stephen, a senior human development and family science major from Caldwell, Ohio (Shenandoah), has started all 46 games for the Buckeyes this season and is batting .356 with a team-high 18 doubles, seven home runs and a .615 slugging percentage. He has driven in 41 runs and has scored 31 runs. Howell, a red-shirt junior majoring in communication, has started all 27 games he has played this year, which has been hampered by a hamstring injury. Howell is batting .421 with 45 hits, 20 RBI and 30 runs scored. He has played in only five of the team’s last 24 games, but could return to the lineup this weekend in a four-game Big Ten series vs. Minnesota.
The Academic All-District IV Team is made up of student-athletes from Division I schools in Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. To be nominated, student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve and carry a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or higher. Team members are selected by a vote of CoSIDA members within the district. The academic all-district team is part of the Academic All-America program, which is sponsored by ESPN The Magazine.
