GREENWOOD, Ind. – The 2016 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District Baseball Teams were released Thursday afternoon and Gustavus junior Josh Chatfield (Apple Valley, Minn.) was named to the 12-member District 6 Team, which features student-athletes from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.
Josh Chatfield
Chatfield boasts a 3.82 GPA in public accounting and has started in all but two games this season. The Eastview product leads Gustavus regular starters with a .395 batting average (10th/MIAC), including 49 hits, 17 runs, 12 doubles, two triples, one home run, and 25 RBI. Chatfield has a slugging percentage of .548 and an on-base percentage of .435. He also leads the team with 15 multiple hit games, including two games with four hits, and had a hitting streak of 10 games.
In the outfield, Chatfield has recorded 64 putouts and has not committed an error after starting 16 games in center and 18 in right.
Chatfield has been a key member of a Gustie team attempting to bring the program back to prominence in the MIAC. After sweeping Bethel in the final home series yesterday, the Gusties have a .500 record at 18-18 and are 7-11 in the MIAC. The 18 wins are the most since 2008 and the seven league wins are the most since 2013.
This year’s CoSIDA Academic All-District 6 Team includes six other members of MIAC institutions – Nathan Mathwig, Ben Buerkle, and Willie Doll of Saint Mary’s, Logan Hershey of Saint John’s, Jordan Zoellmer of Carleton, and Tim Carlson of Concordia.
First-team Academic All-District honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot, where first-, second-, and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.