RICHMOND, Va. – The Colonial Athletic Association has selected Elon University baseball's
Mike Borucki as Elon's 2019-20 Institutional Scholar-Athlete of the Year, presented by Sonabank and announced by the league office on Wednesday, March 25.
A senior catcher from Marlton, N.J., Borucki is a physics and computer science double major and owns a 3.47 GPA. He has been named to the CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll and the Athletic Director's Honor Roll for all seven semesters he has been at Elon, and earned Dean's List in the fall and spring of 2019. He spent the summer of 2018 as a Data Science Intern with American Water Works, and was a Software Engineering Intern with The Boeing Company this past summer. He also spends time reading to local Elementary school students and volunteers with the Miracle League Baseball Game. In November, he and the rest of the Phoenix baseball team
went to the Dominican Republic as a part of Elon's commitment to students achieving a global education. While there, the team put on a clinic for local youth players, painted a dorm for an MLB youth academy, and participated in English lessons with the academy players.
Borucki also teamed up with Elon football's Matt Foster to
engineer an active transdermal drug delivery design intended to treat nicotine addiction. The pair received a provisional U.S. patent in January 2019 and is seeking a permanent utility patent. Individually, Borucki is also developing a smartphone application that will control the administration of nicotine and other drugs in order to limit addiction and help the user quit.
UNCW men's tennis player Daniel Groom was chosen as the conference's Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year, as voted on by the CAA's Academic Affairs Committee.
Each of the CAA's 10 institutions had a nominee for the CAA Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year and will be recognized with a crystal award.
2019-20 CAA Institutional Male Scholar-Athlete Awards
Charleston, Kristopher Kuhn (Baseball)
Delaware, Thomas Aloe (Men's Lacrosse)
Drexel, Connor Schmidt (Men's Golf)
Elon, Mike Borucki (Baseball)
Hofstra, Tareq Coburn (Men's Basketball)
James Madison, Fox Semones (Baseball)
UNCW, Daniel Groom (Men's Tennis)
Northeastern, Josh Winkler (Baseball)
Towson, Jacob McLean (Men's Lacrosse)
William & Mary, Brandon Raquet (Baseball)
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