Baseball Earns ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

The Kalamazoo College baseball team in a huddle.
Photo by Kimberly Moss

The Kalamazoo College baseball team was awarded the 2021-22 American Baseball Coaches Association's Team Academic Excellence Award for achieving a 3.49 team grade point average this academic year.

The ABCA recognizes teams with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for the academic year.

Kalamazoo finished the season with a record of 27-13, the second-most wins in school history. The Hornets earned their first NCAA III Tournament victory in their second appearance after winning the MIAA Tournament championship.

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/Diamond Sports Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other major awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award.