GREENWOOD, Ind.- Five UW-Oshkosh baseball players were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® Team on Tuesday (June 2).
Owen Housinger (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Stevenson) and
Jack McNamara (La Grange, Ill./Lyons) earned their second career academic all-district honors while
Danny Connelly (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein),
Brenden Max (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) and
Trevor Morris (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) were named to the team for the first time.
Housinger is a business management and marketing double major with a 3.86 cumulative grade-point average. The Titans' starting second baseman played in 33 games this spring with 32 starts, hitting .263 with a .743 on-base plus slugging percentage. He collected 30 hits, including four doubles, a triple and two home runs on the year while knocking in 14 RBI and scoring 21 runs. Housinger drew 16 walks and had 10 multi-hit games, led by a 3-for-4 performance against UW-Whitewater in the first game of the Titans' April 22 doubleheader.
A physical education major, McNamara owns a 3.73 cumulative GPA. The designated hitter paced Oshkosh with 19 walks across 31 games and 30 starts. He collected a .248 batting average and recorded a .730 OPS. Seven of his 25 hits went for extra bases (five doubles, two home runs) while he had 17 RBI and 19 runs. McNamara led Oshkosh with six multi-RBI games this spring and he registered multiple hits eight times.
Connelly owns a 3.56 cumulative GPA as a marketing major. He started 33 of his 34 games behind the dish and led the team with 253 putouts and nine runners caught stealing. Connelly hit seven doubles and two home runs, scoring 17 times and recording 19 RBI.
Max, Oshkosh's starting left fielder, is a finance and economics double major with a 3.79 cumulative GPA. He batted .288 at the plate with a .743 OPS across 35 games with 34 starts and led the Titans with two triples. With nine multi-hit games and a best of 10 consecutive games with a hit, Max hit four doubles, two triples and two home runs, scoring 16 runs and sending in 15 more. He struck out just 11 times, the fewest times among hitters with at least 80 at bats.
Morris is a finance and economics double major with a 3.62 cumulative GPA. The utility player hit .325 with an .890 OPS and paced Oshkosh with a season-best 12-game hitting streak between April 3 and April 18. In that time, he collected 18 hits, including five doubles and a home run, scoring 12 runs and recording eight RBI. Morris also had 12 multi-hit games with two three-hit contests.
The Titans went 16-23 overall and 12-16 in the WIAC this season, missing the league tournament by a game.
The 2026 CSC Academic All-District® Baseball Team, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes baseball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
Academic All-District® honorees are considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
The Division II and III CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2025-26 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA governance structure.
