Two Mavericks were selected in last weeks Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
The first player from MSU taken was junior right-handed pitcher Chris Odegaard. The Arizona Diamondbacks drafted Odegaard in the 23rd round.
The Minnesota Twins picked Odegaard in the exact same spot last year.
Odegaard holds a 13-8 record with the Mavericks in his three seasons and is seventh on MSU's career list with 192 strikeouts.
The pitcher struggled last season, finishing 4-5 with a 5.98 ERA.
The second player chosen in the draft that sported a Maverick uniform was senior third baseman Geno Glynn.
The Tampa Bay Rays selected Glynn in the 43rd round.
The third baseman hit .376 with eight home runs and a team-high of 58 RBIs last season with the Mavericks. In his two years in Mankato, Glynn finished with a .347 batting average.
MSU has now had 30 players drafted in the school's history.
MSU graduate Nathan Kafka signed with the Midwest Sliders of the Frontier League, while Jimmy Dale signed with the Texarkana Gunslingers of the Continental Baseball League.
Football
Two teams from the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference were in the Sporting News Division ll Preseason Top-25 Poll.
One of those teams was the University of Minnesota-Duluth who was ranked third, and the other is MSU, who is predicted to finish 18th in the country for the 2009 season.
Men's basketball
The men's basketball team finished 19th in the national attendance rankings, with an average of 1,870 fans per game during the 2008-09 season. There were five teams from the NSIC that were in the top 20.
Women's basketball
The women's team finished ninth in attendance in a season in which they won the national championship. The Mavericks drew an average of 1,457 fans per game. There were three other teams that were in the top 10 from the NSIC.
Academics
While having success in most sports last year, the Mavericks more importantly had success in the classroom during the last school year.
The average grade point average for the spring semester was 3.17.
The women's golf team led the way with a 3.57 average.
The 12 women's teams averaged a 3.34 GPA while the 11 men's teams averaged a 2.94 GPA. More than 205 student-athletes were named to the Dean's List, while 71 Mavericks maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average for the spring semester.
Alumni
The Mankato MoonDogs will have former MSU baseball coach Dean Bowyer throw out the first pitch for their June 18th game against the Thunder Bay Border Cats for MoonDogs College Night.
Bowyer won more than 1,000 games for the Mavericks in more than 30 seasons with the team. Former assistant Matt Magers took over the head coaching duties this past season.
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