Baseball: Bethany College baseball team earns ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Bethany College baseball team was one of nearly 800 member college and high school programs from across the country to been awarded the 2022-23 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award which presented by Sports Attack.
Fourth year head coach Justin Thomas led the Bison earned a 3.17 GPA for the 2022-23 school year. The program had 12 student-athletes recognized on the Presidents' Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll earlier this summer.
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 2022-23 academic year.
Over 300 high school programs and more than 450 collegiate programs were recognized with this year's award.
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 13. 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 2022-23 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.
