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OLLU Baseball Earns Third Straight ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award
Posted: Jul 25, 2024

OLLU Baseball Earns Third Straight ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

GREENSBORO, N.C. – (July 25, 2024) - The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) has announced that Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) is one of the select few, among the more than 800 member college and high school programs from across the country, to have been awarded the 2023-2024 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, which Sports Attack presents. This year's award, a mark of exceptional academic achievement, recognized nearly 350 high school programs and more than 470 collegiate programs.

OLLU has earned this award for the third consecutive year after marking a 3.198 GPA this past year. The team had the most Red River Athletic Conference Scholar-Athletes than any other team at OLLU with 33.

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 cumulative 2023-2024 academic year.

Coaches could nominate their teams for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award following the conclusion of their spring semesters before 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 for the 2023-2024 academic year

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.

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