Wayne State University Athletics

Baseball 8/2/2022 8:15:00 AM Cameron Weidenthaler, Assistant Media Relations Director

Baseball Earns ABCA Team Academic Award

DETROIT -- The Wayne State University baseball team earned the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award following the 2022 season. The Warriors posted a 3.40 team GPA for the 2021-22 academic year and have collected the award in all seven seasons since the award was introduced in 2016.

Coaches were able to nominate their teams for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award following the conclusion of their spring semesters who 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 during the 2020-21 academic year.

About the ABCA
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/Diamond 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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