DC Baseball achieves ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

DEFIANCE, Ohio – Defiance College baseball has been honored by the American Baseball Coaches Association as one of 163 Division III recipients of the Team Academic Excellence Award for the 2022-23 academic year.

The ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, presented by Sports Attack, recognized nearly 800 college and high school programs for 2022-23. Honorees must hold a team cumulative GPA of 3.00 on a 4.0 scale during the 2022-23 year. The Yellow Jackets posted a team GPA of 3.38 for the year and had six players post 4.0 GPAs during the fall followed by a total of nine during the spring semester.

The 2022-23 academic honor for DC baseball is the fourth over the last five years (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2022-23). The Yellow Jackets are one of 20 college baseball teams in the state of Ohio at all levels of collegiate competition and among eight schools in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference to achieve the award.

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