ALL-TIME MAN OF THE YEAR WINNERS
McCabe is First Pace Student-Athlete to Win the Honor.
PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y -- Pace University baseball graduate student-athlete Mitchell McCabe was voted the NE10 Man of the Year for the 2022-23 season, as announced by the league at the annual end of year banquet on Sunday night at the campus of Pace University.
The Northeast-10 Conference Man of the Year honors student-athletes for their excellence in competition, in the classroom, and in community service. McCabe is the first student-athlete from Pace University to earn this prestigious honor from the conference.
The graduate student was co-captain of the 2023 Pace baseball team which won their first-ever NE10 championship this May. The Chelmsford, Mass., native has been a part of the Blue and Gold program since 2019. He has earned numerous awards as a Setter outfielder, continually improving each season. In his final year with the Setters, he was named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-East Region First Team and D2CCA All-Region Second Team, he was a finalist for NE10 Scholar-Athlete of the Year, as well as being named to the NE10 Baseball Championship All-Tournament team and NE10 Second Team All-Conference. He was second on Pace's lineup in batting with a .340 average and a .432 on-base percentage. He started all 55 games for the Setters with 49 runs, nine doubles, two triples, 10 homers and 44 RBI. He was a finalist for Pace University's Scholar-Athlete of the Year, an award which he won as a senior in 2022.
He led the Setters to their first NCAA Northeast Regional appearance in 10 years this May and third in Pace's Division II history.
"Mitch was a man who did everything for us," remarked head coach Hank Manning. "In his absence next year, not only will we be missing a good baseball player, we are going to be missing an even better person. His legacy will hopefully continue on with the underclassman who have watched him lead our team over the past several years."
Over his career, he has been voted to the 2022 D2CC All-Region First Team, the 2022 ABCA All-Region Second Team, he was an NE10 all-conference member three times, making the first team in 2022 and the second team in 2023 and 2021. McCabe was named to the NE10 Academic All-Conference Team twice so far, with no baseball honors given in 2020 and the 2023 team yet to be announced.
Academically, the marketing analytics major finished his MBA with Pace University this semester boasting a spring GPA of 4.0. Overall, McCabe finishes his academic career at Pace with a 3.9 cumulative GPA, and a 3.88 undergraduate GPA.
McCabe has been a dedicated and natural leader for the Setters baseball squad, battling injury and maintaining a mental toughness. For his career, he played in 135 games for Pace with 117 starts, 412 at bats and a .342 average. He has totaled 107 runs, 141 hits, 25 doubles, five triples and 22 home runs with 97 RBI. In his entire career in the outfield, he has only been charged with one error, making his career fielding percentage .981 with 49 putouts, two assists.
The NE10 banquet returned to an in-person event this year for the first time since 2019. The award winners and their families were invited as well as administrators and coaches from all the NE10 member institutions. The banquet kicked off two days worth of annual meetings for the conference office.
The NE10 bestows its prestigious Man and Woman of the Year awards upon graduating student-athletes who have exhausted their athletic eligibility and who have exhibited sustained excellence in competition, the classroom, and in their community service endeavors. The recipient of the NE10's Woman of the Year is designated as the conference's nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year award program. The NE10 award is voted upon annually by the NE10's Senior Woman Administrators Council. For more information on the Northeast-10 Conference's Man and Woman of the Year Honorees, click here.
-Release provided by Pace athletic communications-
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