ABCA Announces Team Academic Excellence Award Honorees

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The American Baseball Coaches Association has announced its 2023 Team Academic Excellence Award, which for the first time included Cal State Bakersfield as the only honored member team of the Big West. The Roadrunners' success in the classroom paid off in large amounts, as this was the third academic honors given to CSUB Baseball this season after a fifth consecutive year of academic growth, consistently rising year-over-year from a 2.89 cumulative team GPA in 2018 to a 3.23 this season.

The American Baseball Coaches Association's Team Academic Excellence Award honors high school and college programs coached by ABCA members that post a cumulative Grade Point Average over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.

Criteria for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award include:

Must be a high school or college team
Head coach must be a current ABCA member
Team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale during the 2022-23 academic year. GPA may not be rounded up.

The American Baseball Coaches Association has a long tradition of recognizing the achievements of baseball coaches and student-athletes. The ABCA/Rawlings All-America Teams are the nation's oldest, founded in 1949, and the ABCA's awards program also includes the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Awards, the ABCA/ATEC Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other major awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award.

~GoRunners.com~

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