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Georgia State's Daniel Blaustein Earns Top Academic Honor

Panthers' second baseman named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-District III Baseball Team

Georgia State baseball junior Daniel Blaustein has been named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-District III Baseball Team for the second year in a row as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

The awards recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performance on the diamond and in the classroom.

Blaustein becomes the sixth Panther to receive the honor as it marks the fourth time that a Georgia State baseball student-athlete has been named to the second team. Former Panther Jean-Michel Rochon-Salvas earned the honor three straight seasons, the last being in 2008, earning first team honors twice.

The Atlanta native has seen action in 27 games this season, making eight starts. Blaustein enters the weekend going 10-for-46 at the plate with seven runs scored and six driven in. The junior is reaching base at a .369 clip and is one-for-one in stolen base attempts.

Majoring in finance, Blaustein currently has a 3.91 GPA and has earned President’s List and Dean’s List academic honors. He earned the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Award last spring and will likely receive it again in the coming weeks.

Blaustein is the CAA’s lone honoree and one of five from the state of Georgia to be named to either the first or second team.

Nominations and voting for the All-America programs are conducted by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America. There is a University Division (Division I programs) and a College Division (DII, DIII, NAIA, NJCAA programs).

Two Academic All-District teams are chosen in each district, with those on the All-District first teams placed on the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration.

The Georgia State baseball team returns to the site of its 2009 CAA Championship this weekend at UNC Wilmington. The Panthers took two games from the Seahawks at Brooks Field last May en route to their second consecutive trip to the CAA Championship.

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