Steiner Awarded NCAA Postgrad Scholarship

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Sheldon Steiner (Dalton, Ohio / Central Christian), a College of Wooster graduate and standout for the Fighting Scots’ baseball team this spring, added another achievement to his résumé recently, as he was one of 29 male spring sport student-athletes to be awarded a postgraduate scholarship from the NCAA.

Steiner is the second from Wooster to earn the prestigious honor this academic year, with the football team’s Rick Drushal being the other, and it marks the school’s 12th such honoree overall, including 11 over the last 14 years. That puts Wooster among the top-40 in Div. III in all-time NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients.

A 2007 ESPN The Magazine second-team Academic All-American®, Steiner plans to continue his education in the field of zoology at a graduate school after majoring in biology at Wooster. On the diamond, Steiner collected first-team all-Mideast Region and all-North Coast Athletic Conference honors after leading the Scots in virtually every offensive category this season. He batted .384 with 10 home runs and 49 RBI, making him the first Wooster player to win the team’s triple crown since Trevor Urban in 1998.

Also statistically, Steiner was the league leader in RBI and ended up in a tie for home runs, and nationally, he ended up 18th in Div. III in total home runs and just outside the top-50 in RBI (1.11 per game). Steiner scored 42 runs himself, while tallying 11 doubles, 16 walks, and 12 hit by pitches for slugging and on-base percentages of .646 and .472, respectively. Solid defensively at first base as well, he accumulated a .991 fielding percentage.

Steiner, who graduated magna cum laude from Wooster and made Dean’s List every semester, played two years with the Scots after transferring from Hesston (Kan.) College. For his career, he hit .377, finishing just outside the school’s top-10 list for batting average, in addition to recording 23 doubles, 12 home runs, and 72 RBI. Sheldon is the son of Dean and Prudy Steiner of Dalton, Ohio.

The $7,500 award is given out annually to 174 student-athletes, who are selected by an NCAA committee that screens candidates whom have an overall grade-point average of at least 3.200, have performed and behaved with distinction on and off the playing field, and intend to continue their academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree.