GREENSBORO, N.C. — The St. Mary's University Baseball team earned the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, presented by Sports Attack.
The award honors member programs that achieved a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. The Rattlers were one of three Lone Star Conference teams to earn the award, joining Lubbock Christian and St. Edward's.
StMU finished the year in the NCAA Regionals with a 39-19 overall record and had 20 student-athletes from the team named to the Lone Star Commissioner's Honor Roll.
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.
