NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Junior infielder Simon Whiteman (Trumbull, Conn.) of the Yale baseball team has been named Academic All-District. The honor was announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday.

Whiteman is a chemical engineering major with a 3.99 cumulative grade point average. He is interested in energy production, namely solar energy and photovoltaics.

On the field, Whiteman moved from second base to shortstop this season. He is tied for fourth in the Ivy League in hits (50) and stolen bases (9), is fifth in the Ivy League in runs (31), tied for fifth in runs batted in (29) and tied for sixth in batting average (.323).

A graduate of Fairfield Prep, Whiteman is in Trumbull College at Yale.

Academic All-America awards are nominated and voted upon by members of CoSIDA. District 1 is comprised of teams from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Half of the 12-player Academic All-District team hailed from the Ivy League.

First-team Academic All-District honorees advance to the Google Cloud Academic All-America ballot, with first- and second-team Academic All-America honorees scheduled to be announced June 7.

Yale, currently in first place in the Ivy League standings, hosts Penn this weekend at Yale Field.

Report by Sam Rubin '95 (sam.rubin@yale.edu), Yale Sports Publicity