Wright State's Schneider, YSU's Dosch Named Scholar-Athletes of the Month

INDIANAPOLIS –- Wright State's Colleen Schneider and Youngstown State’s Drew Dosch have been named the Horizon League Scholar-Athletes of the Month for the month of May/June.

Schneider, a softball player for the Raiders, hit .308 (4 for 13) in four games during the month of May. She went two for three with a run scored and a RBI in first game against Ohio and drove in a run and scored once in opener at UIC. The junior also did not commit an error in 41 fielding chances.Off the field, the mechanical engineering major was a 2012 CoSIDA Third Team Academic All-American and a recipient of WSU’s Dr. Carl Benner Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award. In addition, she holds a 3.937 GPA and was amed to the Horizon League and WSU Honor Rolls and the Dean’s List.

Dosch is a baseball player at Youngstown State. The sophomore helped lead the Penguins to a third-place finish at the Horizon League Championships. He batted a .310 with 18 hits, 7 runs scroed, two home runs, 15 RBIs and six doubles during May (14 games). Dosch was a first-team All-Horizon League selection as a third baseman and finished third in batting average, third in home runs, third in total bases, fourth in slugging percentage and fifth in hits in the Horizon League in 2012.

An integrated social sciences education major, Dosch received a 4.00 GPA in each of his first four semesters at YSU. It is the second month in a row that Dosch has been named Scholar-Athlete of the Month by the Horizon League. In addition, he was named a Second-Team Capital One Academic All-American by CoSIDA in 2012 and is an active member of YSU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

The Horizon League Scholar-Athlete of the Month recognizes outstanding academic and athletic achievements. To be eligible for the honor, the student-athlete must maintain a cumulative grade-point average of 3.20 or better (on a 4.00 scale), have completed at least one year at the member institution, passed 24 semester or 36 quarter hours and perform well during the month’s competition. Winners are selected by the League’s faculty athletics representatives, from nominations provided by sports information directors.