ST. LOUIS – The Illinois State baseball team placed two players on the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete First Team as Collin Braithwaite and Owen Miller were among 13 first-team honorees, the league announced Tuesday. An additional five players earned honorable mention status.
Braithwaite, a junior catcher from Queen Creek, Arizona, was one of three players honored with a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade-point average (GPA). Miller, a sophomore from Fredonia, Wisconsin, was the only sophomore on the first team.
Players of sophomore or higher academic and athletic standing, with cumulative GPAs of 3.