BOCA RATON, Fla. – Florida Atlantic University’s Mitchell Hartigan has been rewarded with Conference USA’s highest athletic and academic honor for baseball, as the 2020-21 C-USA Scholar Athlete of the Year. Hartigan is the baseball honoree among the league’s 12 teams.
This award is presented to the top student-athlete in each conference-sponsored sport, based on academic achievement (GPA), athletic achievement and service, and voted on by the league’s 14 faculty athletic representatives. In his three seasons, Hartigan has a .319 career batting average, and needed just those three academic years to earn his undergraduate degree in finance, earning a 3.89 GPA this past semester.
The Jupiter, Florida native has never received a GPA below a 3.8 in a semester, is a multi-time President’s List and Dean’s List member, and every single semester since his inception at FAU in Fall 2018, he has been recognized on the FAU All-Academic Team and C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll. He was honored this past spring with a spot on the C-USA Baseball All-Academic Team, and was chosen for the Male Outstanding Academic Achievement Award at the annual Owlspys as well.
Hartigan will return to campus for his fourth season with the Owls in the coming weeks, in preparation for the 2022 campaign.
