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Princeton University Athletics
Andrew Hanson Named Academic All-America
May 11, 2000 | Baseball
May 11, 2000
PRINCETON, N.J. - Andrew Hanson (Jr., Cumberland, Maine) was named to the 2000 GTE Academic All-America District II first team. Hanson has a 3.24 grade-point average in Psychology.
Hanson is second on the Tigers in hitting with a .371 batting average and leads the team in home runs with five. He has hit safely in all but six games this season and 26 of the last 30 games the Tigers have played. He leads Princeton with 20 multiple-hit games.
He may best be remembered for a Sunday afternoon on April 16 in New York City when he went 6 for 6 in the second game of a doubleheader against Columbia. In hitting for the cycle, Hanson set two Princeton records and tied three others in leading the Tigers' 16-6 win over the Lions.
Hanson's six hits, two home runs, and seven RBIs all tie school records. His 16 total bases bests the old record of 11 and his five extra-base hits exceeds the old record by one. The left-handed hitting first baseman started the game off in the first inning with a two-run home run into the Harlem River at Columbia's Coakley Field and repeated the same feat in the third inning. He then hit an RBI single in the fifth inning, an RBI double in the sixth and the cycle-completing RBI triple in the seventh. For good measure, Hanson added another double in the eighth inning.
For the doubleheader, Hanson was a combined 7 for 10 with nine RBIs and five runs scored. In the five games that Princeton played last week, Hanson batted .524 (11 for 21) with eight runs and 12 RBIs.
Last weekend, the Tigers swept Dartmouth in the best of three Ivy League championship series by scores of 5-2 and 4-3. Hanson broke the second game open with a two-RBI double to put Princeton ahead 2-0. The Tigers, who are league champions for the first time since 1996, earn the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. First-round pairings will be announced May 22.
Hanson, along with the other 10 members of the District II team, will be placed on the national ballot with the GTE Academic All-America Baseball teams to be announced Tuesday, June 6.