DETROIT -- The Wayne State University baseball team earned the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, presented by Sports Attack, following the 2025 season.  The Warriors posted a 3.662 team GPA for the 2024-25 academic year and have collected the award in all 10 seasons since the award was introduced in 2016.

This year, 440 college programs and nearly 300 high school programs were recognized for their outstanding academic achievement.

"The 2024-2025 academic calendar year was a tremendous experience for our baseball program," said head coach Ryan Kelley.  "Every college baseball season delivers a journey full of peaks and valleys, and we were entrenched with adversity, success, challenges, and triumphs that we continue to build from.  I applaud our baseball student-athletes for staying disciplined and consistent with their academic routines.  Our in-season semester team GPA was potentially the highest in our 85-season history!  A true credit to our students by striving to meet academic expectations head on and hungry to deliver amazing results.  I would like to extend a genuine and sincere thank you to our student-athletes for their commitment.  Additionally, a special thanks to WSU Athletics Academic Advisor Kim Clexton for her unparalleled leadership and resource support.  Further, thank you to the several faculty and staff across our great campus for providing an amazing academic experience during our student-athletes' journey toward graduation."

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.

About the ABCA
Founded in 1945, the American Baseball Coaches Association is the primary professional organization for baseball coaches at the amateur level.  Its over 15,000 members represent all 50 states and 41 countries.  Since its initial meeting of 27 college baseball coaches in June 1945, Association members have broadened to include nine divisions: NCAA Division I, II, and III, NAIA, NJCAA, Pacific Association Division, High School, Youth and Travel.

About Sports Attack
Sports Attack was founded 1995 in Reno, NV, but our design and manufacturing folks pre-date the first wheel machines in the baseball industry, well over 50 years ago.  With three active partners still heavily engaged, SA is proudly family-owned and operated.  To say that we are manufacturers of quality sports training equipment just seems to not capture the essence of who we are.  We do not just design our products; we explore, scrutinize, analyze and engineer our products.  We do not just manufacture or assemble our equipment; we build each one from the ground up, by hand, the old-fashioned way.  We view our suppliers through the lens of our mission statement, as a critical part of the design and development of our equipment.  After fabrication and prior to shipment the equipment is tested thoroughly, every aspect of every unit.  This ensures the product reliability on which our brand is built.  Our process represents who we are; distinctive and exclusive design, detailed and quality manufacturing, resulting in innovative, highly effective training equipment.  Our corporate integrity is a critical asset, and we are committed to upholding it worldwide.  We set high standards and we abide by them as we practice business fairly and behave ethically.  We wholeheartedly believe in, enthusiastically embrace and relentlessly pursue our company's mission.  For more information, visit sportsattack.com.