The Kalamazoo College baseball team was awarded the 2020-21 American Baseball Coaches Association's Team Academic Excellence Award for achieving a 3.55 team grade point average.
The ABCA recognizes teams with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for the academic year. The 2020-21 Hornets were awarded the MIAA Team GPA Award earlier this week.
Kalamazoo finished 25-15 overall this spring, the second-highest win total in school history.
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.