It was recently announced that Long Beach City College sophomore baseball player Mark Stanford was selected to the 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America College At-Large First-Team .

He is one of six student-athletes from two-year colleges from around the country to be on the First-Team selections, which is voted on by members of the College of Sports Information Directors of America. Stanford is majoring in Business Administration. Stanford finished his sophomore year with a 4.00 GPA.

This season Stanford made the Second-Team All-Conference as a utility player with alternating his talents on first and third base and in the outfield. Not only did Stanford excel in the classroom, he was an asset o nthe baseball field with smashing 46 RBIs and while holding a .292 batting average for the 2019 season.

This Fall, Stanford will be continuing his academic and athletic career at Biola University.