Senior shortstop Austin Nola will return to LSU for his senior year, according to an Athletic Department news release.
Nola, a three-year starter and a 2010 second-team all-SEC honoree, was taken in the 31st round of the MLB draft by the Toronto Blue Jays.
“Coming back for my senior year is just a great opportunity that I couldn’t pass up,” Nola said in the release. “I’ve grown up following LSU and having the chance to play baseball and go to school here has been an incredible experience. You enter college with the idea that it’s a four-year commitment, and I want to earn my degree and help us get back to Omaha (for the College World Series).”
Nola’s younger brother Aaron, an incoming freshman also drafted by the Blue Jays, will join the LSU baseball team as a pitcher in the fall, choosing not to sign a pro contract.
 
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