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Navy's Luke Baldwin Named Second Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The United States Naval Academy's Luke Baldwin (Jr., La Grange Park, Ill./Fenwick) has been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II University Division At-Large Second Team.
The District II region includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Athletes named to the first team qualify for the national ballot. To be nominated for the CoSIDA Academic All-America program, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.3 or higher cumulative grade point average and be a starter or significant reserve.
The At-Large Team is comprised of male athletes in fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling to mark the largest Academic All-America division in the program.
Baldwin was named Honorable Mention All-America after being perhaps Navy's most consistent player during the 2009 season. His 51 points on the year ranked fourth on the team, while his 23 assists paced the squad and his 28 goals were fifth best. Additionally, Baldwin provided outstanding defense all season long and was Navy's most steady performer on both ends of the pool for most of the season. He will enter his senior season with 91 career points (44 g, 47 a).
Earlier this spring, Baldwin was named to the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) Men's All-Academic and Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Scholar-Athlete squads, while carrying a 3.41 GPA in economics.
Overall, he is one of four CWPA male varsity athletes named to the team as Brown University goalie Kent Holland was named to the University Division District I First Team, while Johns Hopkins University goalie Jeremy Selbst was recognized on the College Division District II First Team. Harvard's Egen Atkinson picked up University Division District I Second Team accolades.
The four selections mark the most garnered by either a men's or women's water polo conference in a single year establishing a new bar for the CWPA, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) and Western Water Polo Association (WWPA).
