KNOXVILLE — Former University of Tennessee baseball player Nico Mascia has been nominated for a prestigious academic award.
Mascia, a catcher and infielder for the Diamond Vols, was an all-state player during his high school days at Farragut High School, was nominated for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship.
The scholarship has been awarded by the Southeastern Conference since 1986.
Mascia, who was an All-State standout as a junior in high school for the Admirals, has excelled in the class room at Tennessee.
He was the 2018 SEC Co-Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2018 as a redshirt sophomore.
The Diamond Vol was on the Dean’s List every year between 2015-19 and he was on the SEC Spring Honor Roll every year during that time.
He was a Google Cloud Academic All-America Second Team in 2018.
Masica, a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Major, went to work full-time at UT Medical Center in 2019 as an assistant in the orthopedic trauma unit.