AUSTIN, Texas – For the first time in school history, senior Derek Manning of Elizabethtown College baseball was named 2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year, announced by the organization Tuesday afternoon.

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Manning is the first three time First Team Academic All-American in school history while becoming the 38^th student-athlete at Elizabethtown to earn the honor. The baseball program now has had nine Academic All-Americans overall.



"Derek Manning has been an outstanding student-athlete during his time at Elizabethtown College," said Director of Athletics, Chris Morgan. "He has excelled at everything; he's been a well-respected RA, an excellent student, an All-American athlete, and a leader on and off the playing field. We are extremely proud of Derek's accomplishments, and wish him all the best in graduate school."

An East Petersburg, Pa. native, Manning has won nearly every academic award a student-athlete can win. Earlier this spring, Manning became the third player in program history to earn Landmark Conference Senior Scholar Athlete accolades and the second in as many seasons. Anthony Knight took home the honor in 2019 while Kristopher Davis was selected in 2015. Manning is Elizabethtown's second winner this year, joining Lydia Lawson of women's basketball. Manning is a three-time Landmark Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll selection as well. 

Manning completes an outstanding career on the field as well, collecting ABCA Third Team All-America accolades in 2018 while being named Landmark Conference Player of the Year in the same season. He is a two-time All-Region selection from both the ABCA and D3Baseball.com and a First Team All-Landmark honoree.

"I am beyond proud and excited for Derek," added head baseball coach Adam Sheibley. "This is an amazing accomplishment and directly related to his unmatched work ethic on and off the field. The self-discipline Derek possesses is something that I deeply admire about him and strive to be more like myself. Derek already has a long list of accomplishment within our program and this award further solidifies him as one of the best players to ever put on a Blue Jay uniform."

An offensive juggernaut, Manning finishes his run with the Blue Jays with a .430 batting average and 169 hits. He also tallied 99 RBI and runs scored, 54 doubles and 13 home runs.

Manning will graduate this spring with a degree in Computer Engineering and has accepted a full-scholarship into the University of Wisconsin Computer Science PHD program.