GREENSBORO, N.C. – For the third straight season, the North Dakota State baseball team has earned the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, the organization announced on Wednesday.
The Bison won the award for the sixth overall time in program history, which highlights programs coached by ABCA members and posted a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale for the entire academic year. NDSU posted a 3.59 cumulative GPA last season.
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.
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