Catawba’s Huneycutt, LMU’s Pack Named To Academic All-District Baseball Teams

May 7, 2010

BRISTOL, CT -- Catawba College pitcher Wil Huneycutt and Lincoln Memorial University outfielder Cody Pack have been named to the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Baseball Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Huneycutt was selected the District 3 First Team. The District III College Division consists of all-non NCAA Division I colleges and universities in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia. To be nominated, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.30 cumulative grade point average. In addition, the student-athlete must be a starter or a significant reserve on her team. Pack was selected to the District IV First Team. Disctrict IV includes all colleges and universities from Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio and Michigan.

Both Huneycutt and Pack will advance to the national ballot.

Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.

Wil Huneycutt

Huneycutt (Locust, NC/W. Stanly HS) has been named to the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 3 Baseball Team which was announced on Thursday. Huneycutt, a red-shirt sophomore, has a 3.97 GPA while majoring in business administration.

Huneycutt leads Catawba with four saves on the season and has a 5-1 record with a team-low 2.39 ERA. In 37 and two-thirds innings, the right-hander has allowed 37 hits with just four walks and 39 strikeouts. Academically, Huneycutt has been on the Dean's List and Presidential Honor Roll and also serves as a Junior Marshal.

Cody Pack

Cody Pack (Andersonville, TN), a 6-2 junior, is a Pre-medicine major at Lincoln Memorial University carrying a 3.77 grade point average. During the 2009-10 season, Pack was a 2010 South Atlantic Conference Scholar Athlete nominee and was recently inducted into the Alpha Chi as one of the top-10 percent of his class. He has been on the LMU Dean's List for six consecutive semesters and this year served as a member of the Lincoln Memorial University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

Civically, he has been involved with the Head Start program in his hometown of Andersonville, Tennessee, and participated last summer in youth baseball improvement in Owensboro, Kentucky while playing summer league baseball there.

Cody Pack

For the past two years, Pack volunteered as a ROHO Helper during the Middlesboro ROHO Club's annual Shopping Spree for a select group of area needy children and has participated in LMU's annual Youth Coaches Clinic while also being an active member in his church.

On the field of play the three-year letter-winner leads by example and helped the Railsplitters achieve their first post-season appearance since the 1999 season. Pack finished the regular season with a .330 batting average, a team-best slugging percentage (.659) and had a .417 on base percentage. For the year, Pack has recorded 58 hits, 13 doubles, 3 triples, 13 homeruns and 55 RBI.