GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) revealed its Team Academic Excellence Award winners for the 2024-25 academic year on Wednesday with the University of St. Francis baseball team being one of the teams recognized for its tremendous performance in the classroom.  The awards were presented by Sports Attack.

Under head coach Brian Michalak, USF earned ABCA Team Academic Excellence honors with an overall team grade point average of 3.32.

Teams from every level of college and high school baseball were honored with this year's award, which highlights programs coached by ABCA members that posted a gpa of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for the cumulative 2024-25 academic year.

Nearly 300 high school programs and more than 440 collegiate programs were recognized with this year's award. Coaches were able to nominate their teams for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award with the criteria that they must be a high school or college team, the head coach must be a current ABCA member and the team must have a minimum cumulative gpa of 3.00 on a 4.0 scale for the 2024-25 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.

Sports Attack, which is in its tenth year of sponsoring the prestigious award, was founded 1995 in Reno, NV, but its design and manufacturing pre-date the first wheel machines in the baseball industry, well over 50 years ago. With three active partners still heavily engaged, Sports Attack is proudly family-owned and operated.  They build their equipment from the ground up, by hand, the old-fashioned way.  For more information, visit sportsattack.com.

A full list of Team Academic Excellence recipients is available at ABCA.

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