Baseball earns third consecutive ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award
The Defiance College baseball team earned its third consecutive ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award last week after posting a 3.42 GPA for the 2020-21 academic year.
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Last week the American Baseball Coaches Association announced its Team Academic Excellence Award winners for 2020-21. Defiance College earned a spot on the list for the third straight season after the baseball squad posted a 3.42 GPA for the 2020-21 academic year. The Yellow Jackets also recorded an all-time high team semester GPA of 3.43 for the spring semester.
To receive an ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, all members of the program must combine for a minimum GPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) over the entire school year.
A total of 380 collegiate baseball programs were recognized through the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award program, including 147 NCAA Division III teams. Defiance is one of six Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) institutions included on the list.
The Yellow Jackets had eight players named to the Tom Bohlsen Academic All-HCAC this past spring.