Reader on two top 25 teams in 2012-13

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Clemson defensive tackle D.J. Reader D.J. Reader
So. Defensive Tackle
#48 6-3, 335
Greensboro, NC
View Full Profile was also a member of the Clemson baseball team in 2013. With today’s announcement that the Clemson baseball team finished the season 25th in the final USA Today Coach’s poll, Reader was a member of two top 25 teams during the academic year. The Clemson football team finished ninth in the final USA Today poll and 11th by Associated Press after its 11-2 season.

Reader became the first Clemson athletes to play on a top 25 football team and baseball team in the same academic year since Kyle ParkerKyle Parker
Quarterback
#11 6-1, 200
Jacksonville, FL
View Full Profile in 2009-10. Parker helped the Tigers to a number-24 final football ranking in USA Today and a number-four final ranking in Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball that year. He was the starting quarterback on the football team and starting right fielder on the baseball team. He had 20 home runs and 20 touchdown passes that year, the only athlete in college history to reach 20 of each in the same year. The baseball team reached the College World Series.

Below is a list of Clemson athletes who have played on a top 25 football team and baseball team in the same academic year.

			FB Rankings	Baseball Ranking


Year	Athlete		Coach-AP	BA-CB-USA


1958-59	Lou Cordileone	12-13		7-NP-NP


1986-87	Bill Spiers	17-18		10-10-NP


	Ray Williams	17-18		10-10-NP


1991-92	Jeff Sauve	18-17		7-10


1993-94	Dexter McCleon	23-22		4-9-9


	Andre Humphrey	23-22		4-9-9


2009-10	Kyle Parker	24-NR		4-4-10


2012-13	D.J. Reader	9-11		NR-NR-25

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