Hunter Morris was named a Collegiate Baseball Second-Team All-American on Thursday, the publication announced.

The Southeastern Conference Player of the Year and a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award and the Dick Howser Trophy, Morris has helped lead Auburn to a No. 1 seed in this weekend’s NCAA Auburn Regional.

Morris, from Huntsville, goes into the NCAA Tournament leading the SEC in slugging percentage (.752), hits (98), RBI (70), home runs (21) and total bases (188), is third in batting average (.392) and triples (five) and fourth in doubles (17).

Track & field trio earn academic honors
Auburn senior Jager Livingston was named Thursday to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country
First team, while senior Danielle Gilchrist and junior Holly Knight were named to the women’s second team.

Livingston, a native of Scottsboro, is now eligible for the national ballot due to his first-team all-district recognition. He recently concluded his collegiate career on Auburn’s track and field team by placing third in the decathlon at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a personal best 7,160 points. He was seventh in the heptathlon at the 2010 SEC Indoor Championships with 4,887 points.

Livingston, who recently graduated from Auburn with a degree in Chemical Engineering and a 3.83 grade-point average, is a repeat selection on the Academic All-District First Team. He was also named Auburn’s Male Student-Athlete of the Year at the Tiger Torch Banquet in April and to the SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll in each of the past three years. He was named the Department of Chemical Engineering’s Outstanding
Student of the Year in 2009, and earned the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering’s President’s Award in 2010.

Gilchrist, who hails from Tulsa, Okla., owns a 3.89 grade-point average in rehab services. She is a 2008 All-American and 2009 SEC Champion in the 400-meter hurdles and ranks third in school history in that event, as well as sixth in the 100-meter hurdles. She battled injuries for much of the 2010 season, but still managed to qualify for the NCAA East Preliminary Round in the 400-meter hurdles. She placed seventh in that
event at the 2010 SEC Championships.

Knight, a native of Devon, England, owns a 3.89 grade-point average in Psychology. A third-team Academic All-District honoree last season,
Knight was runner-up in the 10,000 meters at the 2010 SEC Outdoor Championships and qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Round in that event. She was also named to the All-SEC Cross Country first team in the fall after placing sixth at the SEC Championships. She has also earned All-American honors in the 5000 meters in 2008.

Volleyball’s Davis earns bronze medal
Auburn volleyball rising senior Alyssa Davis earned the bronze medal as a member of the U.S. Women’s National A2 Red Team at the USA
Volleyball Open National Championships held at the Phoenix Convention Center, May 29-June 1.

Davis, a 6-4 middle blocker from Oakland Park, Fla., was a part of the 24-member National A2 program that trained in Tempe, Ariz., May 24-28.

The group was then split into two 12-member rosters for the open championships, the A2 Blue Team and A2 Red Team. The A2 Blue Team captured the tournament gold medal.

“It was a great opportunity for me to play with and compete against some of the best collegiate players in the nation,” Davis said. “I got a lot of practice playing against athletes my height and it really helped me become stronger at the net.”

The group was selected from a group of athletes that participated in the U.S. Women’s National Team Open Tryouts held Feb. 19-21 at the U.S.
Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. A total of 175 athletes were in attendance.

Davis will return for her senior year in 2010 as the squad looks to improve on its 16-15 overall 2009 mark. The Tigers enjoyed its best season in 10 years as the team finished second in the SEC West.