SAN FRANCISCO – SF State senior catcher/designated hitter
Matt Quintero has been named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-District 8 Baseball Team as selected by the District's Sports Information Directors.
Quintero's name will now be placed on the Capital One Academic All-America® Team ballot, where first-, second- and third team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
The Academic All-District 8 NCAA Division II teams include the student-athletes that play for institutions in the three conferences on the West Coast: California Collegiate Athletic Association, Great Northwest Athletic Conference and Pacific West Conference.
The San Gabriel, Calif., native has played in 38 games going into the Gators' final weekend of the 2012 regular season. He is batting .302 as he has 39 hits of which three are home runs and 11 doubles. Quintero also has driven in 18 runs while scoring 22 times this season. The three-year letter winner also has stolen five bases this season.
He has three multiple-RBI games and 11 multiple-hit games including a career 3-for-5 day with four runs driven in the Gators' 8-7 loss at the University of San Francisco on March 21.
The Kinesiology major is one of five players from the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) on this year's Academic All-District 8 Team. He has been named to the SF State Department of Athletics Honor Roll several times during his collegiate career including this past semester being named to the Dean's List. The four other CCAA baseball student-athletes are Cal State L.A.'s Gabriel Asakura (Pitcher), UC San Diego's Elias Tuma (Pitcher), Cal State Monterey Bay's Brian Haggett (Infielder) and Danny Nelson (Outfielder).
Last evening at the 2011-12 SF State Department of Athletics Student-Athlete Awards Banquet, Quintero was presented with the Dr. Hal E. Charnofsky Award.
The 2012 Capital One Academic All-District ® Baseball Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. Capital One became the entitlement rights holder to CoSIDA's Academic All-America teams programs in 2011.
The Academic All-District ® teams include the student-athletes listed on the following pages and are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. This is the first year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moves from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I) and doubles the number of scholar-athletes honored.
The teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools. The Capital One Division II and III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2011-12 DII and DIII Academic All-America® teams programs.
Complete Listing of 2012 Capital One Academic All-District ® Baseball Teams
