Baseball earns academic award from ABCA

ORANGE, Calif. – The Chapman University baseball team earned recognition from the American Baseball Coaches Association as a Team Academic Excellence Award winner.

The ABCA annually honors high school and collegiate baseball teams that maintain a 3.0 team GPA. In total, over 800 programs were honored with 450 collegiate teams earning the academic distinction.

The Panthers were well above the benchmark with a 3.307 team GPA at the end of the 2022-23 school 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.

By Steven Olveda
Sports Information Director