DOMINICAN COLLEGE'S JUSTIN DECKER NAMED 2018-19 CACC MALE SCHOLAR- ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

June 19, 2019

DOMINICAN COLLEGE'S JUSTIN DECKER NAMED 2018-19 CACC MALE SCHOLAR- ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

New Haven, Conn. (6/19/19) Dominican College baseball standout Justin Decker was named the 2018-19 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year, as announced on Wednesday by CACC Commissioner Dan Mara.

New Haven, Conn. (6/19/19) Dominican College baseball standout Justin Decker was named the 2018-19 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year, as announced on Wednesday by CACC Commissioner Dan Mara.

Decker will now move on for consideration for both the regional and national Division II scholar-athlete of the year awards that will be handed out by the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) later on this summer. Decker will first be considered in the voting for the D2CCA East Region Award, and if he were to win that honor, he would become one of eight finalists for the national award.

The nominating and voting for the CACC Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Year Award was conducted by the league's 14 sports information directors, while the voting for the D2CCA awards will be conducted by the 24 conference commissioners throughout Division II.

Decker had a fantastic senior season in 2019, as he earned First-Team All-CACC honors while helping to guide the Chargers to a spot in the CACC Championship Final. He recorded his 200th career hit against Southern Connecticut State back on Feb. 22, and he finished the campaign with a .359 batting average, four home runs, 51 runs batted in (RBI), 51 runs scored and 14 stolen bases. Decker's impressive play also garnered regional and national honors following the season. He earned First-Team All-East Region honors from both the D2CCA and American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA), and then went on to earn a pair of All-America honors, including second-team status from the ABCA (also earned honorable-mention honors from the NCBWA).

Decker concludes his stellar career as a three-time All-CACC honoree, earning first-team honors as a sophomore in 2017, second-team accolades as a junior in 2018, and his first-team status this year.

The Rotterdam, N.Y., native has also been a standout in the classroom, as Decker owns a 3.81 cumulative grade point average in his major of financial management. He is a three-time CACC All-Academic Team honoree, while also earning Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-District honors during his sophomore, junior and senior seasons. Decker was also inducted into the Dominican College New York Sigma Chapter of Chi Alpha Sigma.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement. Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world. Dominican also sponsors 17 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level. To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.