Five student-athletes from the Brevard College baseball team have been named 2024-25 Academic All-District performers, selected by College Sports Communicators.
Five recent Brevard College graduates made the list, as Lucas Granata, Hayden Jennings, Cale Oehler, CP Pyle, and Jordan Searcy all earned this prestigious academic achievement after walking across the graduation stage just weeks ago.
Granata earned CSC Academic All-District honors for the third-straight season, while Pyle made back-to-back CSC honors. Jennings, Oehler, and Searcy all make their debuts as Academic All-District honorees.
The Academic All-District team is part of the Academic All-America program that has been honoring outstanding academic and athletic achievement by student-athletes throughout the landscape of college sports since 1952. The CSC Academic All-America Baseball teams will be announced later in June.
Granata, a Business & Organizational Leadership Magna Cum Laude graduate from Wake Forest, North Carolina, capped off his Tornado career with a solid 2025 campaign. Making 39 starts for the Tornados in left field, Granata notched 31 hits with 20 runs scored, 17 RBI, and seven doubles. A career .300 hitter, Granata eclipsed the 100-career hit mark, and drew more hit-by-pitches than any Tornado in a single career in the NCAA era.
Jennings is a recent Magna Cum Laude graduate of Brevard College from Beaufort, South Carolina and received a degree in Business & Organizational Leadership. Jennings put up career numbers in his final campaign with the Tornados, notching career highs in batting average (.338), hits (45), doubles (10), home runs (three), runs scored (34) and RBI (32). Additionally, Jennings slugged .481 with a .469 on-base percentage in 39 total games and 38 starts.
Oehler, a Concord, North Carolina product who put together one of the most productive careers of Brevard’s NCAA era, recently graduated from Brevard College Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies. A four-year starter for Brevard, Oehler started all 38 games in 2025, batting .350 with a .438 OBP and a career-best .608 SLG%. Oehler accumulated 50 hits – including 16 doubles and seven home runs – and scored a team-best 40 runs and drove in 43 while logging 13 multi-hit performances.
For his collegiate career, Oehler is the Brevard College NCAA-era career leader in doubles (56), home runs (23), walks drawn (88), runs scored (136), RBI (171), and sacrifice flies (17). Oehler earned USA South West Division Second Team his freshman campaign, ABCA/Rawlings All-Region honors his sophomore and junior seasons, and USA South All-Conference Second Team nods the last two years.
Pyle, a product of Salisbury, North Carolina who finished up a two-year playing career at Brevard with a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Recreation, has been a consistent presence in the Brevard outfield over the last two seasons. Pyle hit .299 in 40 games played and 39 starts, totaling 46 base hits, 37 runs scored, 14 RBI, five doubles, two triples, and a home run. Pyle racked up 92 hits in two seasons at Brevard, scoring 71 times with 41 runs driven in with 15 doubles, three triples, and three home runs.
Searcy, a native of Polk County, North Carolina who wrapped up his collegiate career in a Tornado uniform and earned a Bachelor’s degree from Brevard College in Business & Organizational Leadership, was a mainstay in the Brevard rotation in 2025. Searcy made a team-high 13 starts, totaling 56 innings of work with 32 total strikeouts (team-high). Searcy was second on the team with four wins, and in his final collegiate outing turned in a quality outing with five innings and three strikeouts, allowing just one hit as the Tornados defeated Pfeiffer 11-4 in the first round of the 2025 USA South Conference Tournament.
The 2024-25 Academic All-District Baseball teams, 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 soccer honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
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 2024-25 Divisions II and III Academic All-America programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America program is partially financially supported through the NAIA national office.
For more information about the CSC Academic All District and Academic All-America Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com.
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