MARSHALL, Texas – Chosen as one of top academic baseball student-athletes for NCAA Division III, East Texas Baptist University's Connor Massimini is a College Sports Communicators Academic All-American voted onto the First Team. Massimini is the sixth student-athlete to earn the award for the baseball program and third to be named to first team.
 
Massimini is one of three outfielders named to the 12-person CSC All-Academic First Team as nine outfielders made the three teams. He graduated in May with a 3.56 in Criminal Justice and is a three-time ASC All-Academic team member and ABCA Team Academic Award.
 
The past three years he has helped with the ETBU fall baseball youth camp, Morning High 5's at Marshall ISD schools, and Operation Christmas Child. He earned two All-American awards from D3baseball.com and the ABCA, was the ASC Male Athlete of the Year, and was ASC All-Tournament. He finished the year with 16 home runs and 61 RBI to lead the ASC. He recorded a .342 batting average in 53 games played and started with 12 doubles and a .658 slugging percentage.
 
ETBU won 40 games, finished with a No. 3 final ranking, played in the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament, and won the NCAA Division III Super Regional and Regional Championships along with the ASC Tournament.
 

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CSC Academic All-Americans
2026: Connor Massimini (1^st team)
2019: Dylan Sumpter (2^nd team), Casey Combs (3^rd team)
2017: Conner Combs (1^st team) – Academic All-America Player of the Year
2016: Conner Combs (1^st team)
2016: Dynas Doud (1^st team)
2010: Kyle Pope (2^nd team)
 

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CSC NCAA DIVISION III FIRST TEAM
Pos.      Name                                         School                                                                              Yr.         GPA                   Major
C            Andrew Fazio                          Denison University                                                         Jr.          3.92                   Biology
C            Brandon Mahler                      Concordia University Chicago                                   Sr.         3.60                   Business
DH         Catcher Ridings                      Hardin-Simmons University                                        Jr.          3.77                   Business Administration
IF           Cooper Berry                           Pomona-Pitzer                                                               Jr.          3.68                   Math
IF           Kyle Douin (3)                         University of Southern Maine                                    Gr.         3.70/3.70         Leadership Studies
IF           Alex Henderson                      Claremont-Mudd-Scripps                                            Jr.          3.54                   Economics
IF           Alex Nemunaitis                     Wittenberg University                                                   Sr.         3.96                   Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
OF          Bryce Didrickson                    Claremont-Mudd-Scripps                                            Sr.         3.93                   Engineering
OF          Richie Heyder                          Farmingdale State College                                         Sr.         3.78                   Business Management
OF          Connor Massimini                  East Texas Baptist University                                    Sr.         3.56                   Criminal Justice
P            Bryan Carney                           The University of Olivet                                               Sr.         3.87                   Insurance & Risk Management
P            Brit Kostura                             Baldwin Wallace University                                        Sr.         3.98                   Sustainability & Finance