Scott Plaza, a senior business education major from Arlington Heights, helped the 2014 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team win the NCAA World Series and capture the second Division III national championship in program history.
The Warhawks, 44-7, participated in the series May 23-27 near Appleton, Wis.
The Warhawks won their first game against the University of Southern Maine 8-1. The team went on to defeat SUNY Cortland 9-6 and the University of St. Thomas 10-4, sending them to the final game of the series.
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In that game, the Warhawks shut out Emory University 7-0 to seize the national championship.
The baseball team joins five other national championship teams hailing from UW-Whitewater this academic year. The football, men's basketball, men's and women's wheelchair basketball and gymnastic teams also won the top prize at the end of their seasons.
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For the first time in the history of collegiate athletics, UW-Whitewater completed a three-sport sweep by winning football, basketball and baseball national championships in the same academic year.
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