Bull candidate for Senior CLASS

Senior infielder Austin Bull has been selected as a candidate for the Senior CLASS Award, the organization announced. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, the Senior CLASS Award honors the attributes of senior student-athletes in four areas: community, classroom, character and competition.

Bull is one of 30 baseball candidates for the award, which will narrow its field to 10 finalists midway through the regular season. Those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select a winner who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.

The infielder from Chandler is in his fourth season at GCU and, through the weekend series with California Baptist, has made 158 career starts and logged 180 hits.

Bull's credentials for the award's four categories are listed below:

Classroom

In the classroom, Bull features a 3.72 cumulative GPA in his business administration degree program. His semester GPA has been as high as 4.0 and has never been below a 3.33. He is on track to graduate this spring.

Character

Bull is an upstanding individual of high character, setting an example for his teammates. He is respected and looked up to by fellow teammates. He is a student of the game of baseball with some of his top hobbies including studying swings of baseball legends and reading baseball-related books.

Community

Bull has been involved with GCU's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Toy Drive and has helped collect turkeys during the holidays at local grocery stores through St. Mary's Food Bank. He and his teammates also have been involved in GCU's yearly Welcome Week move-in, helping move the student body into their dorms.

Competition

Bull will be a four-year starter, and he has made 158 career starts. He holds a .302 career batting average highlighted by a .339 mark as a sophomore in 2017. Bull bursted onto the scene with an All-WAC Second Team freshman campaign in which he hit .285 with a .379 on-base percentage. He has spent significant time as GCU's leadoff hitter over the past three seasons and has drawn 85 walks to accumulate a .399 on-base percentage.

Baseball Finalists

Zach Ashford, Fresno State	Austin Bull, GCU	Richard Cunningham, Baylor
Jack Dunn, Northwestern	Antoine Duplantis, LSU	Austin Embler, UNC Greensboro
Bryce Fehmel, Oregon State	Vito Friscia, Hofstra	Sam Fuller, St. Bonaventure
Eric Gilgenbach, Notre Dame	Andrew Gottfried, High Point	Brock Hale, BYU
Will Haueter, Northern Kentucky	Justin Hayes, Norfolk State	Darius Hill, West Virginia
Bobby Holmes, Coastal Carolina	Gunner Leger, Louisiana	Brady Lloyd, East Carolina
Jake Mangum, Mississippi State	Jayse McLean, North Dakota State	Tommy Miller, Siena
Brian Moskey, Quinnipiac	Cole O'Connor, Dartmouth	Cam Opp, Army
Nic Ready, Air Force	Luke Ritter, Wichita State	Zach Schneider, Florida Atlantic
Andy Shadid, Bradley	Jahmon Taylor, Coppin State	Brylie Ware, Oklahoma

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