For the fifth year in a row, and seventh time overall, Ashland University's baseball team has earned the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award.
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As announced by the ABCA on Wednesday (July 24) morning, Ashland is one of more than 800 member college and high school programs to earn the honor, which highlights programs coached by ABCA members that posted a grade-point average of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for the cumulative 2023-24 academic year.
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The Eagles' team GPA was 3.349 in both the fall of 2023 and spring of 2024.
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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 2023-24 academic year
Ashland baseball finished the 2024 season at 42-15 overall and 24-8 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, winning the Great Midwest regular season for the first time. The Eagles played in both the Great Midwest and NCAA Division II split Midwest Regional tournaments.
ALL-TIME ASHLAND UNIVERSITY BASEBALL ABCA TEAM ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS
2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21, 2019-20, 2016-17, 2015-16
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