Coastal Carolina Baseball's Fleet Named First Team Academic All-American

CONWAY, S.C. – Coastal Carolina University redshirt-senior pitcher Austin Fleet (Edmond, Okla./Santa Fe) has been selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America First Team, it was announced by CoSIDA today.  Fleet becomes just the second player in Big South history to be named a First Team Academic All-American and the first since Winthrop’s Bryan Link in 1995.
 

Fleet, who has a 3.78 grade-point-average in business management, is 5-1 with a 1.99 earned-run average and seven saves in 25 appearances.  He is holding opponents to a .228 batting average and has 50 strikeouts in 49.2 innings pitched.  Fleet is ninth in Coastal Carolina Division I history with a career 3.40 ERA and is 10th in appearances with 70.  Fleet has made three starts on the season, earning a win in the 3-0 victory over Michigan March 14 by striking out six in six innings of work.  He did not allow a hit in 4.1 innings of relief in the win over Clemson March 31 and had seven strikeouts in four innings of work in the win over VMI April 25.  Fleet graduated with a degree in business management in the Spring of 2009 and currently is taking classes for a second degree in recreation and sport management.
 
Fleet was named to the Academic All-Big South team in 2009 and was an ESPN The Magazine Second Team All-District honoree the same year.
 
Coastal Carolina opens the 2010 Big South Tournament Wednesday, May 26 at 11 a.m.