MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University baseball team won the 2021-22 ABCA Team Academic Performance Award, presented by Sports Attack, the American Baseball Coaches Association announced Wednesday.
The award highlights programs run by ABCA members who posted a GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale for the entire 2021-22 academic year. The Mountaineers earned a team GPA of 3.11 in fall 2021 and a 3.01 in spring 2022 for a cumulative grade point average of 3.06.
With the honor, WVU secured the first Academic Excellence Team Award. In total, more than 250 high school programs and 420 collegiate programs were recognized with this year’s award.
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, established in 1949, and the ABCA Awards Program also includes ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Awards, ABCA/ATEC Regional and 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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