by Alan Babbitt
Center fielder Evan Maday enjoyed an exceptional year on the baseball field and with his studies at Hope College.
The civil engineering major joins a proud group of Flying Dutchmen student-athletes to be voted to the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-America® Baseball Team for NCAA Division III.
Maday, who recently graduated, received second-team honors as an outfielder.
Teammate Brant Kym also was voted to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team® as a first-team infielder.
This marks the second time two Flying Dutchmen teammates were selected for the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team® in the same season. Tom Bylsma and Randy Cutler both earned the honor in 1995.
Kym and Maday join previous Flying Dutchmen recipients in baseball: Landon Brower (2018), Cory Schmidt (2013), Michael Meeuwsen (1998), Mark Kuiper (1995, 1994), Bylsma (1986, 1985), and Cutler (1985, 1984).
Hope's CoSIDA Academic All-America® Honorees
Maday (Grand Rapids, Michigan / East Kentwood HS) was named as a D3baseball.com First Team All-American and the MIAA's 2022 Position Player of the Year by the league's coaches.
The fifth-year senior led the MIAA in batting average for all games at .436. The four-time All-MIAA First Team selection topped Hope in home runs with a record-tying 11 and RBIs with a career-high 47. Hope finished with a 28-10 overall record.
The Division III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2021-22 Division III Academic All-America® program.
For more information about CoSIDA's Academic All-America® Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com on CoSIDA.com.
