SEGUIN, Texas -- For the second consecutive year, Texas Lutheran Baseball slugger
Tyler Cauley (Baytown/Barbers Hill) has advanced to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® national ballot for NCAA Division III.
Cauley, a 2018 playing All-American and 2019 Academic All-District selection, made the 2020 Academic All-District® First Team for District 8, which is made up of student-athletes from college and universities from 21 states and Canada.
Cauley, an accounting major, is in the five-year program to obtain concurrently his bachelor's degree and his master's degree in accountancy. Cauley holds a cumulative grade point average of 3.59.
A four-year starter for the Bulldogs, Cauley is in the top-five all-time at TLU for home runs (28), RBI (151) and slugging percentage (.654).
Cauley is a career .346 hitter with 39 doubles, 13 triples, 168 hits, and 25 stolen bases.
As the starting right-fielder, Cauley helped lead TLU to the 2018 NCAA Division III Baseball World Series in Appleton, Wis. The Bulldogs finished as the national runner-up.
With Cauley on the team, the Bulldogs have won an NCAA DIII Regional Championship, a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament Championship and an SCAC Regular-Season Championship. The Bulldogs played in the NCAA DIII post-season in 2018 and 2019. The Bulldogs hosted a 2019 regional tournament.
Cauley and the Bulldogs have a combined record of 103-49 (.678) overall and 39-15 (.722) in the SCAC over the past three-plus seasons.
With the 2020 season coming to a premature end due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CoSIDA Academic All-District® nominations listed career statistics instead of the current year's statistics.
The 2020 Academic All-District® Baseball Team, selected by CoSIDA, recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CoSIDA Academic All-America® program separately recognizes soccer honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
Honorees selected First Team Academic All-District® will advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot. Academic All-America® honorees will be announced from June 8-11.
The CoSIDA Academic All-District® teams include the student-athletes listed on the following pages and are divided into geographic districts across the United States and Canada.
The Division II and III CoSIDA Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2019-20 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CoSIDA Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA national office.
For more information about CoSIDA's Academic All-District® and Academic All-America® Teams program, visit
AcademicAllAmerica.com on CoSIDA.com.
NCAA DIVISION III – DISTRICT 8 (AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, IA, ID, KS, LA, MT, ND, NE)
(NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY, Canada)
FIRST TEAM
Pos. Name School GPA Yr. Major
P Manny Jeffery Wartburg College 3.96 Sr. Biology
P Christian Slattery California Lutheran University 3.98 Sr. Financial Planning
C Truman Schmitt Simpson College 3.97 Sr. Actuarial Science
IF Zach Clarke Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 3.58 Sr. Economics
IF Cale Jamesson Cornell College 3.56 Sr. Kinesiology
IF Alexander Jelloian Whittier College 4.00 Jr. Business Administration / Political Science
IF Justin Scanlon Willamette University 3.67 Sr. Mathematics
OF Tyler Cauley Texas Lutheran University 3.59 Sr. Accounting
OF Ryan Probst California Lutheran University 3.60 Sr. Business Administration
OF Henry Zeisler Chapman University 3.63 Jr. Business Administration
DH Michael Goodrich Trinity University 3.33 Sr. Business Administration
