David Thompson’s selection as 2015 ACC Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year headlined the 2015 ACC Baseball All-Academic Team released Monday by the conference office.
Thompson, Miami’s first ever winner of the prestigious award, was one six Hurricanes to earn Academic All-ACC recognition, tied for the second-most among any ACC program.
The announcement continues an impressive run of academic awards for the Hurricanes, who were also recognized as the top GPA holder of any team participating in the 2015 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
To be eligible for consideration for the All-ACC Academic team, a student-athlete, regardless of classification, must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during her academic career.
A sports administration major, Thompson was joined by Willie Abreu (sport administration), Danny Briggi (economics), Bryan Garcia (accounting), Cooper Hammond (human & social development) and Garrett Kennedy (legal studies),
One of five finalists for the 2015 Dick Howser Trophy, Thompson was voted to the All-ACC First Team following a stellar junior campaign in which he led the country in RBIs with 90 and tied for second with 19 home runs. One of only three players nationally to earn be a unanimous First Team All-American, he led the Hurricanes to their first appearance in Omaha since 2008.
Thompson earned Dean’s List recognition during the spring semester and is working towards a Bachelor of Science in education with a minor in communications. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2015 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the New York Mets, and has begun his professional career in the organization’s minor league system.
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Posted by: 86Cane | June 30, 2015 at 10:34 PM
GO CANEZ GO CANEZ and GO CANEZ
Posted by: SinisterCane | June 30, 2015 at 09:24 PM
Those ladies are making us proud up there. So happy for them, now they just need to finish the job and win it all this time. Watching American national sports is the only thing that can get me as fired up as watching dem Canes!
Posted by: NicKane | June 30, 2015 at 09:07 PM
Nice win for the ladies!
Posted by: Go Canes | June 30, 2015 at 08:59 PM
It's great to be an American and it's great to be Miami hurricane. I love this country!
Posted by: NicKane | June 30, 2015 at 08:58 PM
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Posted by: NicKane | June 30, 2015 at 08:53 PM
USA! USA! USA!!
Posted by: Ohio_Cane | June 30, 2015 at 08:43 PM
Nick I admire your enthusiasm. We need fans like you.
Posted by: Go Canes | June 30, 2015 at 08:17 PM
The only thing I love more than stadium talk is Randy talk.
Please season, come as soon as you can.
Posted by: Go Canes | June 30, 2015 at 08:10 PM
Of course I go to the home games Lurker because I'm a canes fan and I love my team. Unfortunately I can only go to day games because of the business I'm in but I watch the night games on my tvs at work. I'd be lying if I said I like driving almost an hour from Brickell to the gardens and then being embarrassed by sitting in a half empty stadium that sometimes has more of the opponents fans in it then ours. And is also be lying if I said I didn't want them to build a new stadium that would be right around the corner from my condo and would be filled and rocking with the actual 40,000 canes fans that actually show up to games.
Posted by: NicKane | June 30, 2015 at 08:10 PM
Has anybody ever heard a recruit say..."I like UM because they play in an NFL stadium"?
Posted by: CaneRock | June 30, 2015 at 07:02 PM
No but I have heard a recruit say..."I like UM because Canespace is an awesome blog!"
Posted by: 86Cane | June 30, 2015 at 07:49 PM
Has anybody ever heard a recruit say..."I like UM because they play in an NFL stadium"?
Posted by: CaneRock | June 30, 2015 at 07:02 PM
Another red herring
Posted by: Lur-ker | June 30, 2015 at 07:09 PM
What if we could come up with the $400 million+++ (minimum) to build that what-if stadium? Otherwise, it's a $50-100 million dollar erector set stadium. Also not a hater, a realist. A sensible person that has an actual idea of what things really cost.
Do you go to games at SLS?
Posted by: Lur-ker | June 30, 2015 at 07:08 PM
Has anybody ever heard a recruit say..."I like UM because they play in an NFL stadium"?
Posted by: CaneRock | June 30, 2015 at 07:02 PM
Great idea! An imaginary major county construction project, and we're in like Flint! Makes total sense, we'll just get the county to approve adding a multimillion dollar line, with bridges etc. they'll approve it in no time, and then we'll get stadium approval and have it built in mere months. Should be ready by 2017, or 2077. Either way, it's a GO!
I can't wait to sit on a no-back concrete bench in a tiny high school stadium, and choke on tailgate and auto fumes in a parking garage while I grill some wings.
Posted by: Lur-ker | June 30, 2015 at 06:34 PM
What if the seats are really comfortable and have backs to them? What if the stadium is state of the art and awesome like Oregon's or Baylors small stadiums? What if we actually filled the stadium every week so we didn't have to endure espn's constant jokes at our expense on how empty the stadium is? What if we actually had a home field/game day advantage again so recruits wouldn't constantly say the biggest thing working against there UM recruitment is the shitty NoLife stadium game day experience? What if more students showed up since the stadium would actually be near the university again? What if they have the proposed area for only tailgating between the two stadiums and it was awesome? What if you weren't a Hater anymore Lurker? If all these things above came true would you be happy Lurker or would you still find something to complain about? Lol
Posted by: NicKane | June 30, 2015 at 06:56 PM
Great idea! An imaginary major county construction project, and we're in like Flint! Makes total sense, we'll just get the county to approve adding a multimillion dollar line, with bridges etc. they'll approve it in no time, and then we'll get stadium approval and have it built in mere months. Should be ready by 2017, or 2077. Either way, it's a GO!
I can't wait to sit on a no-back concrete bench in a tiny high school stadium, and choke on tailgate and auto fumes in a parking garage while I grill some wings.
Posted by: Lur-ker | June 30, 2015 at 06:34 PM
Here's an interesting article on the proposed UM/MLS joint stadium. Let me know what you think canespace? http://www.stateoftheu.com/2015/6/11/8768981/miami-hurricanes-stadium-is-momentum-building-for-a-joint-mls-um-canes
Posted by: NicKane | June 30, 2015 at 05:40 PM
Really good article above.
Does explain a lot of the offensive inconsistencies
Posted by: Go Canes | June 30, 2015 at 05:20 PM
@aadelsonESPN: What a difference one summer makes for Miami QB @BradleyKaaya and his WRs. http://t.co/ho6mBKbdVo
@aadelsonESPN: More on Miami. Many are skeptical about this team. But I haven't heard coaches + players this confident since I started covering the ACC.
Posted by: Go Canes | June 30, 2015 at 04:56 PM
Eff talking about the flag period. It's just a dam piece of cloth.
Posted by: herbieibis | June 30, 2015 at 04:38 PM
Eff the confederate flag and its supporters
Posted by: Sinistercane | June 30, 2015 at 12:37 PM
For those of you who used the namespace.com web site as a link to the blog, the site is back up.
Posted by: soup | June 30, 2015 at 12:25 PM
Doug Baldwin is spot on!!!!!
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25228412
Posted by: thirstybuzzardcane | June 30, 2015 at 12:18 PM
Good pics of SLS, doesn't look like there's a bad seat in the house.
Posted by: CaneRock | June 30, 2015 at 11:40 AM
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It will be the best college stadium around!!!!!
Posted by: thirstybuzzardcane | June 30, 2015 at 12:13 PM
Disregard my post on the flag....didn't realize they were tea party loony tunes!!!!
Posted by: thirstybuzzardcane | June 30, 2015 at 12:10 PM
Good pics of SLS, doesn't look like there's a bad seat in the house.
Posted by: CaneRock | June 30, 2015 at 11:40 AM
^^^ guaranteed those picks are lottery protected. If they weren't, which I highly doubt, then it would make sense.
Posted by: The Dude | June 29, 2015 at 10:17 PM
I agree.
Posted by: CaneRock | June 30, 2015 at 11:36 AM
^^^^In the Washington Post
Posted by: thirstybuzzardcane | June 30, 2015 at 11:22 AM
Good write up on the Washington Post on the confederate flag!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/30/why-some-black-defenders-of-the-confederate-flag-believe-slavery-was-a-choice/
Posted by: thirstybuzzardcane | June 30, 2015 at 11:20 AM
WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE!
Posted by: CaneRock | June 30, 2015 at 11:11 AM
Here's some nice construction photo's of Joe Robbie!
http://www.miamidolphins.com/multimedia/photo-gallery/DOLPHINS-DARKROOM-Stadium-Modernization-June-2015-Update/d056f359-1779-4403-bd46-5b6e6aea90e0#end
Posted by: thirstybuzzardcane | June 30, 2015 at 11:02 AM
Thanks Old Skool, I'll poke around when I get a chance.
Posted by: Lur-ker | June 30, 2015 at 09:43 AM
DP in hot water for a good reason:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000495166/article/chargers-denzel-perryman-scolded-for-dodgeball
Posted by: trianglecane | June 30, 2015 at 08:44 AM
Lur-ker
I checked through January. No luck. The post must have been in Feb.
Posted by: Old Skool | June 30, 2015 at 08:42 AM
@ByTimReynolds: It's the fifth seven-figure gift to Miami athletics in the last year. (Unless records are wrong, that's unprecedented.)
Posted by: Go Canes | June 30, 2015 at 08:08 AM
@ByTimReynolds: Miami will announce another $1 million gift to Hurricane athletics today, this from UM grad Scott Mueller, CEO of Dealer Tire.
@ByTimReynolds: Mueller's gift will perpetually fund a football scholarship. Mueller attended Miami on an academic scholarship, graduating with honors.
Posted by: Go Canes | June 30, 2015 at 08:01 AM
@GoldenAl: So fired up to play in our new stadium. Our #Team and Future Canes will benefit. #GameChanger #TheU http://t.co/MlchAxAK3m
Posted by: Go Canes | June 30, 2015 at 07:04 AM
@mattyports: [new post] Help needed for family of Miami Hurricanes safety Deon Bush. http://t.co/7NoLZw8LXO http://t.co/UUiRXprsfw
Posted by: Go Canes | June 30, 2015 at 07:03 AM
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/5/4/8538285/nfl-draft-2015-college-football-teams-picks
Posted by: RCCF | June 30, 2015 at 01:50 AM
How Bout Some Sunshine News....
http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/1935450-which-college-programs-have-produced-the-most-nfl-pro-bowlers-in-last-10-years/page/12
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-nfl-draft-miami-hurricanes-florida-gators-usc-trojans/
Posted by: RCCF | June 30, 2015 at 01:50 AM
And what not.
Posted by: 86Cane | June 29, 2015 at 10:25 PM
The U! Building Champions!
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | June 29, 2015 at 10:24 PM
Enough of this mumble jumbo and what not.
Let's get this season going!!
Posted by: Go Canes | June 29, 2015 at 10:22 PM