Kokoska Named CoSIDA Academic All-District
May 14, 2020 | Baseball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State junior outfielder Zach Kokoska was selected to the 2020 Academic All-District Baseball Team, voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the organization announced Thursday.
Kokoska was one of 11 student-athletes named to the Academic All-District 7 First Team, which recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom.
Wednesday, Kokoska earned Academic All-Big 12 First Team accolades and was one of just three student-athletes in the conference to boast a perfect 4.0 grade-point average. He was one of two on the Academic All-District 7 Team with a 4.0 GPA and was one of five student-athletes from the Big 12 to collect Academic All-District honors.
The Latrobe, Pennsylvania, product started all 17 games in right field in 2020, posting a slash line of .349/.446/.540 with a home run, five doubles, two triples and nine runs batted in. Kokoska's on-base percentage was best on the team while his batting average ranked second.
He ended the season on a team-best 16-game on-base streak and ranked second on the team with six multi-hit games. The second-year Wildcat recorded a base hit in each of the season's final five games, including four multiple-hit games, going 9-for-19 with four doubles, a triple, a home run and four RBI in that stretch.
Kokoska ended the season ranked as the No. 69 rated outfielder, according to D1Baseball.com's positional power rankings.
Kokoska is K-State's first Academic All-District selection since 2018 (Jake Biller) and becomes the fifth Wildcat to earn the honor since 2011. He is the 23rd Academic All-District recipient in program history.
Honorees selected first-team Academic All-District will advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot. Academic All-America honorees will be announced from June 8-11.
The Wildcats ended the 2020 campaign with a record of 10-7, winning seven of their final nine games in head coach Pete Hughes' second season.
