AUSTIN, Texas – North Carolina Central senior infielder Andrew Valichka has been voted to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Baseball Team as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday.
 
Valichka was named to the second team and becomes the third baseball student-athlete to be selected to the Academic All-America list in the Division I era.
 
"This honor accentuates Andrew's already impressive list of accomplishments with NCCU and the MEAC," NCCU baseball head coach Jim Koerner said.  "All-American status puts him in an elite group of student-athletes. We are all proud of what he has done."
 
Valichka achieved a 4.00 grade point average while majoring in behavior and social sciences, and was named to the Dean's List at NCCU, as well as the Commissioner's All-Academic List within the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). He graduated Summa Cum Laude in May and will pursue a graduate degree while remaining with the NCCU baseball program as a student assistant.
 
Valichka batted .276 this season and started all 52 games that the Eagles played, while driving in the third-most RBI in the MEAC with 38 on 12 doubles and five home runs. He also finished the season top-10 in the MEAC in runs scored with 37, and hits with 54.
 
During his two-year NCCU career, Valichka played 96 games and drove in 57 RBI with 91 total hits. He also made 132 putouts with 142 assists from third base, and was also a perfect 9-for-9 on stolen base attempts.
 
The Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division I Baseball Team produced an average GPA of 3.90 with the first team combining for an average GPA of 3.97. The team includes 11 student-athletes with 4.0 GPA and two graduate students.