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Mt. Olive standout Capps adds another POY award

Jun 21, 2011

Mount Olive, N.C. — Mount Olive College pitcher Carter Capps was named the 2010-11 Conference Carolinas Male Athlete of the Year, announced Monday. Capps becomes the third Trojan in school history to win the conference athlete of the year award.

Capps, a right-hander from Kinston, was named 2011 Division II Baseball National Pitcher of the Year by three different organizations, and was also named the overall Division II Player of the Year by American Baseball Coaches Association. In addition to earning Southeast Region and Conference Carolinas Pitcher of the Year honors, Capps was also named Most Outstanding Player of the 2011 Conference Carolinas Tournament and the 2011 NCAA Division II Southeast Regional.

After a 10-0 campaign in 2010, Capps posted a 14-1 record this past season and now holds the NCAA Division II record for consecutive wins with 24. His 14 wins, 129 strikeouts and 1.75 earned run average placed him among the nation’s leaders in the NCAA II year-end statistics report.

Capps tossed a no-hitter against Coker this season, the first nine-inning no-hitter in Mount Olive College history. He posted a 2-0 record in the Conference Carolinas Tournament and a 2-0 record in the Southeast Regional, recording a win in relief in the championship game in both tournaments. Capps also notched a save in Mount Olive’s win over Millersville in the first round of the NCAA II National Finals.

Capps was selected by the Seattle Mariners at the end of the third round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft, becoming the Trojans’ highest-ever draft pick. He is currently playing for the Harwich (Mass.) Mariners of the Cape Cod League while working out a contract with the Seattle Mariners.

Capps has also excelled in the classroom with a 3.57 cumulative grade point average majoring in environmental science. In addition to first team All-America honors by three organizations, Capps was named to the 2011 CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-America First Team.

Limestone women's lacrosse student-athlete Racquel Prager was named the 2010-11 Conference Carolinas Female Athlete of the Year.

Capps is the first Trojan to win the award since 2007-08 when Mount Olive swept all of the top individual awards. Baseball student-athlete - and current Trojan assistant baseball coach - Jason Sherrer won the Male Athlete of the Year Award. Women's volleyball/women's track and field student-athlete Sam Mitchell was selected as the Female Athlete of the Year. Mitchell also won the 2007-08 Conference Carolinas Murphy Osborne Award.