Diodati selected to CoSIDA Division I Baseball Academic All-America Team

Great Lake Canadians alum and Alabama Crimson Tide slugger Owen Diodati (Niagara Falls, Ont.) has been selected to the CoSIDA Division I Baseball Academic All-America Team.

June 8, 2022

By Alex Thompson

University of Alabama Athletics

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama’s Owen Diodati has been selected to the CoSIDA Division I Baseball Academic All-America Team.

Diodati (Niagara Falls, Ont.) was named to the organization’s third team. He is one of only 33 Division I student-athletes to be selected as a CoSIDA Academic All-American and is one of just 14 members on this year’s squad to hold a perfect 4.0 grade-point average.

The selection is Alabama’s first since 2007 when Emeel Salem was named a first team Academic All-American. Including Diodati, Alabama has had seven players earn a combined 10 Academic All-America honours since 1972, including first-team honorees Dr. Jeff Laubenthal (1993), Lance Cormier (2002) and Salem (2006, 2007).

In total, The University of Alabama has had a combined 212 Academic All-Americans in program history with Diodati being the 213th. He is joined on the list of Crimson Tide spring honorees by Montana Fouts and Kaylee Tow of softball.

Owen Diodati

-Academic All-American (Third Team)

-Pursuing a degree in finance with a specialization in value investing

-Holds a perfect 4.0 grade-point average through three years at the Capstone

-Earned a spot on the President’s List six times including the Spring 2022 semester

-Named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll for 2019-20

-Selected to the SEC Spring Honor Roll in 2021 and is on-pace to be a 2022 honoree