BEVERLY, Mass. – Endicott baseball student-athletes Caleb Shpur (East Canaan, Conn.) and Gabe Van Emon (Lexington, Mass.) have earned Academic All-America® Second Team honors, as selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC), formerly CoSIDA.
Shpur and Van Emon join Michael DeDonato '17 M'18 (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Kevin Gould '19 M'20 (Rollinsford, N.H.) as the only student-athletes in program history to receive Academic All-America® accolades.
DeDonato was the first student-athlete to accomplish the feat back in 2018 when he earned All-America® Third Team honors, while Gould added his name to the record books in a similar fashion in 2020.
Additionally, Shpur, Van Emon, DeDonato, former men's soccer standout Evan Couchot '20 (Mason, Ohio), and Endicott Hall of Famer Mike Lane '12 (Medfield, Mass.) are the only student-athletes in Endicott Athletics history to be named an Academic All-American by CSC (formerly CoSIDA) and an Athletic All-American in the same year.
Student-athletes are nominated by their Sports Information Director (SID), must have a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade point average (GPA), and be a starter or important reserve on their team.
Twenty thousand nominations are received annually across all sports in each NCAA and NAIA division.
All nominees receive Academic All-District® recognition and advance to the national ballot where CSC members vote on the Academic All-America® teams within their division (1,500 selections annually).
The baseball program had five Academic All-District® selections this year including Shpur, Van Emon, Kyle Grabowski (Westfield, Mass.), Max Tarlin (Sharon, Mass.), and Robbie Wladkowski (Norwood, Mass.).
CALEB SHPUR | SR. | OF
Shpur concluded his undergraduate academic career at Endicott with a 3.64 GPA as a finance and applied mathematics double major.
His experiential learning opportunities included an actuarial co-op at John Hancock Financial and an operations leadership development program internship at The Travelers Companies.
While at John Hancock, Shpur was a member of the long-term care department. He read through customer call scripts to find keywords that suggest they might go on claim.
Shpur also developed a SQL code that automatically selects scripts with specific keywords, wrote code to connect the SQL database to a coding language called Python, and maintained data stored within SQL.
Meanwhile, his experiences at The Travelers Companies included data reconciliation, assisted in data entry, worked on special projects with another intern for the Senior Vice President of Claims, and identified nearly three million dollars of discrepancies in claims.
Shpur's coursework during his time at Endicott featured classes in financial/managerial accounting, finance, corporate finance, macroeconomics, microeconomics, financial modeling, calculus I-III, linear algebra, ordinary different equations, advanced probability, advanced financial math, and advanced statistics.
He is a member of the Endicott Honors Program, a multiple Dean's List honoree, and a three-time Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Academic All-Conference award winner among many other achievements.
GABE VAN EMON | SR. | LHP
Van Emon wrapped up his undergraduate academic career at Endicott with a 3.85 GPA as a business management major.
His internships included the following companies: BioPoint Inc. (sales/recruiting), YMCA (social media/marketing), The Schochet Companies (real estate development), Primrose School of Burlington (teacher's assistant).
While at the Schochet Companies, Van Emon performed research for the Vice President of Development and Acquisitions and analyzed commercial properties for additional revenue sources.
Van Emon's related coursework featured the following topics: marketing, communicating in business, sales management, project management, and operations management.
He is a member of the Sigma Beta Delta International Honors Society, a multiple Dean's List selection, and a three-time CCC Academic All-Conference honoree.
YEAR IN REVIEW
Endicott won a program record 45 games en route to making its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Division III College World Series.
The Gulls also were ranked as high as No. 4 nationally throughout the season (program record).
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(Photo Credit - Jonny Ratner '24)
