Tyler Frederick will not return to the Ragin’ Cajuns baseball team next season, coach Tony Robichaux said Thursday.

The Acadiana High product already has graduated, and he has decided not to play as a fifth-year senior in 2013.

"He’s a good student, a good kid, and he really cared about his academics," Robichaux said of Frederick, who earned a degree in finance.

"That’s what you hope for," the Cajun coach added. "They all want to play pro baseball, but they have less than a three percent chance, so that’s what they almost all are going to do, is fall back on that degree."

Robichaux also said Thursday that catcher Adam Todd will not return next season.

Todd played previously for UL, then returned mid-season this year to provide much-needed depth behind senior Chris Sinclair.

The Carencro High product wound up playing in 14 games, and — after Sinclair hurt his back — making eight starts.

"He had to put a lot on hold to come back and help us," Robichaux said of Todd, an accounting major, "so he’s gong to go back and finish his degree."

Frederick appeared in 43 games, including 38 starts, in 2012, mostly as the primary designated hitter for a Cajuns club that finished 23-30.

He also had five starts at first base this season, and finished the year with a .254 batting average — fifth-best among all UL hitters who played more than 25 games.

Frederick was the Cajuns’ primary first baseman in 2011, when he sustained a wrist injury late in the season.

Sophomore Chase Compton, who led UL with a .328 batting average, took over at first this year.

In 2010 Frederick appeared in 50 games and started 45, taking over at third base in mid-March and hitting above .300 throughout the entire regular season.

He was redshirted as a freshman in 2009, which gave him the fifth season if he had chosen to take it in 2013.

Frederick previously had planned to play summer ball this year for the Lafayette-based Acadiana Cane Cutters of the Texas Collegiate, but Robichaux said he now no longer plans to do that.

"Ty," Robichaux said, "was a good player for us — a high-character kid who really represented our program the way we wanted it represented."