COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Three Mountain West baseball programs earned the American Baseball Coaches Association’s (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, presented by Sports Attack, the organization announced on Wednesday.
New Mexico, UNLV and Washington State are the three teams from the MW and among the 108 DI programs recognized by the ABCA.
The ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award is open to any high school or college (NCAA Division I, II, and III; NAIA; and junior college) team that has a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above (on a 4.0 scale) during the 2024-25 academic year. In all, over 800 programs received 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, 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.
