Behrend Baseball Honored For Academic Excellence
The Penn State Behrend baseball team has been awarded the 2023-24 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award for the eighth consecutive season.
ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team has been awarded the 2023-24 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award for the eighth consecutive season. The Lions were one of 181 Division III teams to be recognized for their efforts off the field, presented by Sports Attack.
To earn the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, a team's head coach must be a member of the ABCA while posting a team grade-point average of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for the cumulative 2023-24 academic year.
The Lions placed 16 student-athletes on the Academic All-AMCC list with nine members of the team earning Peak Performer honors for recording a GPA above 3.5 for the school year and five being inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma College Athlete Honor Society.