CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Two student-athletes from the Lesley University baseball team, infielders Grant Bazinet and Caden Shott, were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team as announced by the organization.
To be eligible to earn CSC Academic All-District recognition, a student-athlete must own a cumulative GPA above 3.50 and have significant athletic credentials. Additionally, student-athletes must have competed in 90 percent of their institution's games or have started in at least 66 percent of its contests.
This is both Bazinet's and Shott's first CSC Academic All-District Honor. Bazinett earned a 3.92 GPA in his sophomore year in the business program. In Health Science, Shott earned a 3.69 as a senior.
On the field, Bazinet appeared in every contest for the Lynx. He made his collegiate debut in the home opener on March 12th at Anna Marie College. He finished second on the team in at-bats (127), runs batted in (23), doubles (6), and home runs (2). His 37 hits and 24 runs also ranked third. On the final day of the season, across two games, Bazinet tripled and homered to score four runs and lead the Lynx to back-to-back wins.
Shott was named a captain going into the 2026 season and did not disappoint. He led the squad in at-bats with 131, homers with three, and triples with three, the third most of any batter in the NAC. He was also a star on the field, playing primarily 3rd and shortstop. He recorded 78 assists, the sixth most of any player in the conference, and was responsible for 11 double plays, the eighth most in the NAC.
About College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 4,400+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a membership-wide vote on August 31, 2022.
From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The name change signaled a major step in a larger strategic plan to highlight the association's evolution and expansion. The move better aligns with the association's membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital and creative college sports industry, regardless of position or title.
The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.
CSC's membership first reached the 3,000 mark during the 2013-14 school year and has topped that threshold each year since with the exception of the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic year. The membership base reached 4,000 for the first time in 2022-23.
Prior to the formation of the organization as CoSIDA in the mid-1950s, sports information directors as a group were a part of the American College Public Relations Association. Most SIDs at those ACPRA meetings eventually felt that a separate organization was needed and that led to CoSIDA's formation. There were 102 members at the original meeting/convention in 1957.