Baseball Places Three on CoSIDA Academic All-District VI Teams
5/10/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 10, 2007
At least one Baylor baseball student-athlete has earned academic all-district honors every year since 1998. In that time, 15 Bears have been so honored 22 times. Mandel joins Jason Jennings (1998, 1999), Jon Topolski (1998, 1999), Ross Bennett (2002, 2003), Michael Griffin (2004, 2005, 2006) and Zach Dillon (2005, 2006) as the only Baylor baseball student-athletes to earn academic all-district honors multiple times.
In order to be eligible for academic all-district honors, a student-athlete must maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 3.20 on a 4.00 scale and participate in at least 50 percent of his team's games. Freshmen and first-year transfers are not eligible.
Czimskey, who prepped at Midway High School in Waco and spent two seasons at San Jacinto Junior College in Houston, is hitting .333 this season with four home runs and 19 RBI. He was named second team at designated hitter. Czimskey, a general studies major at Baylor, has been strongest in Big 12 play; he is hitting .378 with all four home runs and 13 RBI in league action.
One of only three seniors on Baylor's 2007 squad who have spent their entire collegiate careers as Bears, Mandel was a second-team selection as a starting pitcher. An economics major, Mandel is a product of
Baylor returns to Big 12 action this weekend, traveling to
