Ball State University Athletics
Baseball's DeGeeter Earns Academic All-MAC Honor Again
June 13, 2007 | Baseball
MUNCIE, Ind. -- Ball State senior baseball player Ryan DeGeeter has earned Academic All-Mid-American Conference honors for the second straight season, as announced Tuesday by the league office.
DeGeeter - a four-year letterwinner at Ball State - is an exercise science major, who owns a 3.77 grade-point average.
The senior pitcher led Ball State with 78 innings pitched in 2007. He closed his career with a win in his final collegiate start May 17 against Central Michigan and finished his senior campaign with a 5-6 record and a 5.65 ERA.
DeGeeter was named the MAC Male Scholar Athlete of the Week twice during the 2007 season - once following a three-hit, seven-strikeout performance in 7.0 innings March 4 at Austin Peay and once after throwing a career-high 8.1 innings in a March 25 victory over conference foe Akron.
Those two wins provided the bookends for a stretch of four consecutive victories for the senior right-hander, who started 14 games in 2007.
DeGeeter was also honored on the Academic All-MAC Team following his junior season in 2006. In the past five years, the Cardinals have had a total of 13 selections on the squad.
A total of 19 student-athletes were named to the 2007 team. The number of honorees on the MAC All-Academic Team are the number that is set for the specific sport or 33 percent of the number of nominees, whichever is greater.
The Academic All-MAC honor is for a student-athlete who has excelled in athletics and academics. To qualify, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and have participated in at least 50 percent of the contests for that particular sport. First-year students and junior college transfers in their first year of residence are not eligible for the award.
