LAS VEGAS (UNLVrebels.com) – The UNLV baseball team earned the American Baseball Coaches Association’s (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, the organization announced on Tuesday. The Hustlin’ Rebels were one of 129 NCAA Division I teams and one of three Mountain West squads to claim the scholastic honor. The 2024 award also marks the sixth-consecutive year that head coach Stan Stolte‘s squad has received the accolade.
The ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award is open to any high school or collegiate (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 2023-24 academic year. In all, over 800 programs received this year’s award.
Previously, the Scarlet & Gray had 13 student-athletes on the 2024 roster named to the Spring Academic All-MW Team. Those members of the roster include Austin Cates, Rylan Charles, Chase Ditmar, Chase Gallegos, JP Hefft, Kade Higgins, Austin Kryszczuk, Carson Lane, Matthew Maloney, Brendan O’Sullivan, Santino Panaro, Isaac Rodriguez and Sam Simon.
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.
