Ben Higgins Named to Horizon League All-Academic Team
5/18/2023 11:34:00 AM | Baseball
INDIANAPOLIS – Purdue Fort Wayne's Ben Higgins (Macomb, Ill. / Macomb HS / Carl Sandburg CC) has been named the 2023 Valeo Horizon League Baseball All-Academic Team.
Higgins, an economics major, owns a 3.70 GPA. This is his second academic award this week after recently earning a spot on the 2023 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team. Higgins ranks sixth in the Horizon League in home runs (10) and eighth in RBIs (43) and ninth in slugging percentage (.511). Earlier this season he was named the Horizon League Hitter of the Week after hitting three home runs in a game vs. Youngstown State. Higgins has played in 44 games with 41 starts in left field. He has 14 multi-hit games this season.
The Horizon League recognizes student-athletes with seasonal Academic All-League Teams in each of its 19 championship sports. To be eligible for Horizon League All-Academic consideration, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.20 or higher (based on a 4.00 scale), have completed at least one year at the member institution, having earned 24 semester-hour or 36 quarter-hour credits, and participate in 50 percent of the team's overall contests or 20 percent of overall contests for pitchers.
The Mastodons close the regular season with a road series at Milwaukee this week.
~ Feel The Rumble ~
Higgins, an economics major, owns a 3.70 GPA. This is his second academic award this week after recently earning a spot on the 2023 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team. Higgins ranks sixth in the Horizon League in home runs (10) and eighth in RBIs (43) and ninth in slugging percentage (.511). Earlier this season he was named the Horizon League Hitter of the Week after hitting three home runs in a game vs. Youngstown State. Higgins has played in 44 games with 41 starts in left field. He has 14 multi-hit games this season.
The Horizon League recognizes student-athletes with seasonal Academic All-League Teams in each of its 19 championship sports. To be eligible for Horizon League All-Academic consideration, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.20 or higher (based on a 4.00 scale), have completed at least one year at the member institution, having earned 24 semester-hour or 36 quarter-hour credits, and participate in 50 percent of the team's overall contests or 20 percent of overall contests for pitchers.
The Mastodons close the regular season with a road series at Milwaukee this week.
~ Feel The Rumble ~
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