Baseball Earns ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The University of South Carolina baseball team was awarded the 2023-24 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, which was announced this week. The Gamecocks are one of more than 470 collegiate and 350 high school programs to earn this year’s award.
Teams from every level of college and high school baseball were honored with this year’s award, which highlights programs coached by ABCA members that posted a GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for the entire 2023-25 academic year.
Carolina had 15 student-athletes on the SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll and 15 on the SEC’s First-Year Academic Honor Roll.
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 11. 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 during the 2023-24 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.
