Crossroads League Names DeGraaf as Achievement Award Winner

Crossroads League Release I TU Honors Page

HARTFORD CITY, Ind. – The Crossroad League recently announced that Taylor University's Josh DeGraaf has been selected as the 2014-2015 Crossroads League Achievement Award winner.

The Crossroads League Achievement Award is given to a Crossroads League constituent that exemplifies excellence, courage and special achievement during the year. The honor is awarded at the discretion of the Crossroads League Commissioner.

"I am so pleased to award Josh DeGraaf with the Crossroads League Achievement Award," stated departing Crossroads League Commissioner, J.D. Collins. "Josh's performance on the diamond, in the classroom and off the field has been special. He is truly a servant leader that wants to help make those around him better. I am very proud to make one of my last acts as the Crossroads League Commissioner be awarding the Achievement Award to Josh DeGraaf."

The honor is the latest in what has been a steady stream of post-season accolades for the Morris, Illinois native. Most recently, DeGraaf was touted as the top baseball student-athlete from among all NAIA, Canadian and two-year institutions, being named the Capital One Baseball College Division Academic All-America of the Year.

DeGraaf also garnered his third-straight Capital One Academic All-America honor, was named the Crossroads League Pitcher of the Year for the third-straight season and claimed a second-straight Gates-Howard Award as TU's top male student-athlete of the year.

DeGraaf graduated from Taylor with a 3.92 grade-point average and a degree in psychology after concluding a record-setting career on the mound for the Trojans with an 8-2 record, an 81-to-11 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a 1.80 earned-run average over 75 innings of work during the 2015 campaign.

Those numbers helped DeGraaf finish his time at TU as the most decorated pitcher in program history with 29 wins, 258 strikeouts, 17 complete games and 271.2 innings of work.