Completed Event: Men's Tennis versus ITF 25k East Lansing on November 3, 2025 ,
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Grand Canyon University Athletics
Hall of Fame
Eric Rasmussen
- Induction:
- 2018
- Class:
- 1981
The catcher was a two-time first team NAIA All-American who led GCU's 1980 national championship team in hitting at .367. For his Lopes career, he smacked 30 home runs with a .370 batting average.
He handled pitching staffs that posted 3.06 and 3.78 team earned run averages in his two Lopes seasons after transferring from Glendale Community College. The Glendale Apollo High School graduate contributed to teams that went 114-24-2 with him batting clean-up each year. His junior season's team also won NAIA district and area titles but withdrew from the CWS.
Rasmussen's 91 hits in the 1980 season still stands as the seventh-highest single-season total in Lopes baseball history. He played for Team USA in 1980 and then in the California Angels' minor-league system before returning to the Valley to work in education.
Rasmussen spent 30 years with the Peoria Unified School District as an eighth-grade teacher, middle school administrator and high school teacher before retiring.
He handled pitching staffs that posted 3.06 and 3.78 team earned run averages in his two Lopes seasons after transferring from Glendale Community College. The Glendale Apollo High School graduate contributed to teams that went 114-24-2 with him batting clean-up each year. His junior season's team also won NAIA district and area titles but withdrew from the CWS.
Rasmussen's 91 hits in the 1980 season still stands as the seventh-highest single-season total in Lopes baseball history. He played for Team USA in 1980 and then in the California Angels' minor-league system before returning to the Valley to work in education.
Rasmussen spent 30 years with the Peoria Unified School District as an eighth-grade teacher, middle school administrator and high school teacher before retiring.
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