Belton, TX – University of Mary Hardin-Baylor baseball player
Kyle Flynn has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VI Second Team. He is one of just five American Southwest Conference players selected to the academic honor squad.
Flynn, a senior shortstop from Clear Lake High School, sports the highest cumulative GPA among all UMHB senior student-athletes this spring as a sport management major. Flynn started 40 of the Cru's 41 games this season and batted a career-high .304. He also added 18 RBI, 29 runs scored and eight extra base hits. Flynn walked 24 times and posted an on-base percentage of .420 on the season. Flynn is an ASC Academic All-Conference selection and a two-time member of the UMHB Vice-President for Athletics Honor Roll. He won the UMHB Male Senior Scholar-Athlete award and also received a Top X award with one of the ten highest GPA's in the senior class for UMHB this spring.
The Cru baseball team finished the 2010 season with a 22-19 overall record and UMHB went 13-8 in ASC West Division play. The Cru tied for second place in the ASC West Division and advanced to the ASC Championship Tournament for the fourth straight season before falling to Mississippi College in a first-round series.
The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District teams are voted on by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). District VI includes schools in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The College Division Academic All-District team is comprised of student-athletes from NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA schools. Student-athletes must maintain at least a 3.20 GPA to be nominated.
