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Eight Teams Receive ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

Eight SCIAC teams have earned the Team Academic Excellence Award from the ABCA, presented by Sports Attack. Caltech, California Lutheran University, Chapman University, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges, Occidental College, Pomona-Pitzer Colleges, the University of Redlands and Whittier College all achieved recognition.
 
ABCA Release
 
Coaches were able to nominate their teams for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award following the conclusion of their spring semesters prior to the nomination deadline of July 18th. To be honored, teams had to meet the following criteria:
  • Must be a high school or college team
  • Head coach must be a current ABCA member
  • Team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 on a 4.0 scale for the 2024-25 academic year
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 the Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award.
 

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