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Five Bulldogs Named to CSC Academic All-District Baseball Team
June 03, 2025 | Baseball
ATHENS, Ga. – The University of Georgia had five student-athletes named to the College Sports Communicators' (CSC) Academic All-District Team for baseball, the CSC announced Tuesday.
Georgia's five honorees include Robbie Burnett, Kolby Branch, Zach Harris, DJ Radtke and Brian Zeldin as they helped the Bulldogs go 43-17 and play host to an NCAA Athens Regional for the second consecutive year. Also of note, Burnett was selected as a CSC Academic All-America finalist. He will advance to the national ballot to be voted on by CSC members. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced July 1, 2025.
Burnett, a senior from Franklinton, N.C., who is a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award and Dick Howser Trophy (nation's top player), led the Bulldogs with 20 home runs, 66 RBI and 17 stolen bases while batting .307 in 56 games. Branch, a semifinalist for the Brooks Wallace Award (nation's top shortstop), batted .303 with 13 home runs and 41 RBI. The junior from Lucas, Texas was one of two Bulldogs to start all 60 games, and he posted a .981 fielding percentage. Harris, a junior native of Milton, Ga., became the closer during the last month of the season and finished 3-1 with four saves and a 4.55 ERA in 21 games including five starts. Radtke, a redshirt junior from Marietta, Ga, earned a finance degree last month. He posted a 4-0 mark and two saves plus a 4.45 ERA in 22 relief appearances. Zeldin, a graduate from Atlanta, earned a master's degree in business analytics in May, He went 2-1 with a 5.68 ERA in 19 appearances including two starts. Harris and Zeldin were CSC Academic All-District selections in 2024.
The CSC Academic All-America program recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the diamond and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America program separately recognizes baseball honorees in four divisions – NCAA Division I, Division II and Division III along with NAIA. An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a graduate student. Also, the position players must compete in 90 percent of their team's games or must start in at least 66 percent of the games while pitchers must have made at least 17 appearances or pitched 35 innings.
FOLLOW THE BULLDOGS: For the latest Georgia baseball news, visit www.georgiadogs.com and follow the Bulldogs on X (@BaseballUGA), Facebook (@GeorgiaBaseball) and Instagram (@baseballuga).
Georgia's five honorees include Robbie Burnett, Kolby Branch, Zach Harris, DJ Radtke and Brian Zeldin as they helped the Bulldogs go 43-17 and play host to an NCAA Athens Regional for the second consecutive year. Also of note, Burnett was selected as a CSC Academic All-America finalist. He will advance to the national ballot to be voted on by CSC members. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced July 1, 2025.
Burnett, a senior from Franklinton, N.C., who is a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award and Dick Howser Trophy (nation's top player), led the Bulldogs with 20 home runs, 66 RBI and 17 stolen bases while batting .307 in 56 games. Branch, a semifinalist for the Brooks Wallace Award (nation's top shortstop), batted .303 with 13 home runs and 41 RBI. The junior from Lucas, Texas was one of two Bulldogs to start all 60 games, and he posted a .981 fielding percentage. Harris, a junior native of Milton, Ga., became the closer during the last month of the season and finished 3-1 with four saves and a 4.55 ERA in 21 games including five starts. Radtke, a redshirt junior from Marietta, Ga, earned a finance degree last month. He posted a 4-0 mark and two saves plus a 4.45 ERA in 22 relief appearances. Zeldin, a graduate from Atlanta, earned a master's degree in business analytics in May, He went 2-1 with a 5.68 ERA in 19 appearances including two starts. Harris and Zeldin were CSC Academic All-District selections in 2024.
The CSC Academic All-America program recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the diamond and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America program separately recognizes baseball honorees in four divisions – NCAA Division I, Division II and Division III along with NAIA. An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a graduate student. Also, the position players must compete in 90 percent of their team's games or must start in at least 66 percent of the games while pitchers must have made at least 17 appearances or pitched 35 innings.
FOLLOW THE BULLDOGS: For the latest Georgia baseball news, visit www.georgiadogs.com and follow the Bulldogs on X (@BaseballUGA), Facebook (@GeorgiaBaseball) and Instagram (@baseballuga).
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