Gary Morris, a junior second baseman on the Elon baseball squad, was honored with third team academic All-American honors as an infielder on June 1. Details...
Morris, of Franklin, N.C., has a 3.68 GPA in environmental studies and has made the Dean’s List five times and the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll five times. He was also named to the Southern Conference All-Academic Team this spring.
Morris hit a team-best .379 in 59 games for Elon this season, scoring a team-high 64 runs. He set a new Phoenix single-season record with 88 hits, including 17 doubles, a triple and a career-high 7 homers. Morris finished second on the squad with 21 steals and was only caught stealing six times.
He entered Elon’s top-10 in the following single-season categories this season: hits (1st-88); at bats (3rd-232); runs scored (2nd-64); doubles (7th-17) and total bases (5th-128).
In career categories he rates among the top-10 all-time in: games played (10th-167); at bats (8th-589); hits (9th-185); runs scored (4th-147) and doubles (9th-31).
Morris becomes the sixth Elon student-athlete to claim All-American distinction since 2000, and the second during the 2003-04 academic year. Football player Brandon Mason was named to the second-team academic All-American squad in the fall.