ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team has been honored with the 2020-21 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award. It is the fifth straight year the Lions have earned this award.

The ABCA recognizes programs that posted a grade-point average of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for the entire 2020-21 academic year. To be honored the teams must meet the following criteria; Be a high school or college team, head coach must be a current ABCA member and teams must meet the minimum GPA.

The ABCA 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-America 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.