TROY, N.Y. – The 2022 Academic America Baseball teams as selected by CoSIDA have been announced and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete
Chris Grome has been selected to the Third Team. Honorees are recognized as the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom.
A Ph.D. student in nuclear engineering and sciences from Framingham Mass., Grome is also a Dean's Honor List student who has participated in SAAC and collected Liberty League All-Academic certificates. He has earned a Rensselaer Leadership Award and has been involved with Sigma Gamma Tau, an Aerospace Engineering Honor Society, as well as Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Grome has been a research assistant in the Sensing, Estimation, and Automation Laboratory on campus and the Nuclear Computing and Multiphysics (NuCoMP) Research Group. A summa cum laude aeronautical engineering undergraduate, he had internships with Collins Aerospace Hydro-Mechanical Systems, IMEG and Genzyme.
On the mound, the left hander made 10 appearances for the Engineers this season, including eight starts. He went 5-2 with a 3.96 earned run average, giving up 27 runs (23 earned) on 44 hits over 52.1 innings. The All-Liberty League First Team selection struck out a team-high 59 batters with 16 bases on balls, while allowing a .226 batting average to opposing hitters.
In six conference starts, Grome went 3-2 with a 3.49 ERA, surrendering 30 hits in 38.2 innings. An ABCA/Rawkings All-Region Third Team selection, he struck out 37 and walked 11 with a .213 opponent average.
Grome finished his RPI career with a 9-7 record and a 5.13 ERA. He struck out 133 batters over 126.1 innings and allowed a .261 opponent average. He is the 13th Rensselaer baseball player to earn the distinction of Academic All-America, including just the fourth pitcher and first since righthander Andrew Mondo '10 in 2009. Overall, Michael Arboleda '20 was the most recent selection in 2020.
The Engineers went 14-18 overall this season, including a 6-12 mark in Liberty League play.
