Tuesday, April 28, 2015

PORTLAND, Ore.  – Twenty-six student-athletes have been named to the 2015 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Baseball Academic all-conference team.

Tyler Marsh of Northwest Nazarene  heads up  the academic team with a 3.84 GPA.  He is a engineering major from Boise. 

Five players – Kasey Bielec of Central Washington, Brady Muller of Montana State Billings; Kaleb DeHaas of Northwest Nazarene and Travis Shaw and Chandler Tracy of Saint Martin’s – were selected for the third year in a row. 

Seven other players were selected for the second year in a row.

Montana State Billings placed the most players on the academic team with nine.  Eight Northwest Nazarene and five Saint Martin’s players also earned slots on the team.

2014 GNAC Baseball Academic All-Conference Team

**Kasey Bielec, CWU (Exercise Science, Sr., 3.56, Port Orchard, WA)
Brandon Williams, CWU (Construction Management, Sr., 3.47, Auburn, WA)
*Lucas Blehm, MSUB (Accounting, Sr., 3.51, Billings, MT)
*Lee Busto, MSUB (Management, Jr., 3.65, Littleton, CO)
Jake Campeau, MSUB (Health/Human Performance, Sr., 3.70, Walla Walla, WA)
Conner Holbrook, MSUB (Biology, Sr., 3.51, Walla Walla, WA)
*Blake Loran, MSUB (Accounting, Sr., 3.65, Billings, MT)
Casey Merritt, MSUB (Health/Human Performance, So., 3.38, Twin Falls, ID)
Jake Mills, MSUB (Accounting, Sr., 3.23, Burley, ID)
**Brady Muller, MSUB (Management, Sr., 3.42, Billings, MT)
Trevor Nix, MSUB (Environmental Studies, Sr., 3.51, Tigard, OR)
**Kaleb DeHaas, NNU (Spanish& Secondary Education: History, Sr., 3.589, Coeur d’Alene, ID)
Jake Ferdinand, NNU (Business Administration, Sr., 3.557, Henderson, NV)
*Josh Hatfield, NNU (Political Science, Jr., 3.295, Meridian, ID)
Andrew Helmstadter, NNU (Accounting, So., 3.266, Palm Desert, CA)
Colben McGuire, NNU (Recreational Sports Management: Athletic Training, Sr., 3.454, Idaho Falls, ID)
*Tyler Marsh, NNU (Engineering, Sr., 3.842, Boise, ID)
Jake Reppert, NNU, (Communication: Public Relations, Sr., 3.423, Monroe, WA)
Kyle Thomson, NNU (Recreational Sports Management: Sports Management, Sr., 3.274, Enumclaw, WA)
Kameron Banister, SMU (Business, Sr., 3.28, Seattle, WA)
*Nick Mailhot, SMU (Math, Jr., 3.28, Olympia, WA)
**Travis Shaw, SMU (Accounting, Sr., 3.57, Mililani, HI)
Carl Svanevik, SMU (Mechanical Engineering, Sr., 3.76, Woodinville, WA)
**Chandler Tracy, SMU (Business, Sr., 3.37, Newcastle, WA)
*Nathan Etheridge, WOU (Biology, Sr., 3.53, Grants Pass, OR)
Caleb Falck, WOU (Exercise Science, Jr., 3.38, Eagle, ID)

 *Repeater   **Two-time repeater