East Panhandle Times

 The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) announced today that the Shepherd University baseball team has been recognized as one of the nearly 700 member college and high school programs from across the country who have been awarded the 2021-22 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award. The award is presented by Sports Attack.  

Over 250 high school programs and more than 420 collegiate programs were recognized with this year's award. 

Coaches were able to nominate their teams for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award following the conclusion of their spring semesters prior to the nomination deadline of July 14. To be honored, teams had to meet the following criteria: 

• Must be a high school or college team 
• Head coach must be a current ABCA member 
• Team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 on a 4.0 scale during the 2021-22 academic 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 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. 

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