Chambana Sun

Illinois Baseball Earns 2023-24 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- For the fifth-straight academic year, Illinois baseball has been honored for their performance in the classroom by earning the 2023-24 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, presented by Sports Attack, the association announced today.

The Big Ten champion Fighting Illini posted a cumulative GPA of 3.22, turning in a 3.40 fall GPA and a 3.22 spring GPA. Sixteen student-athletes received Academic All-Big Ten honors, while four were recently named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.

Coaches were able to nominate their teams for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award following the conclusion of their spring semesters prior to the nomination deadline of July 11. To be honored, teams had to meet the following criteria:

Must be a high school or college team

Head coach must be a current ABCA member

Team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 on a 4.0 scale for the 2023-24 academic year

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.

About Sports Attack

Sports Attack was founded in 1995 in Reno, NV. With three active partners still heavily engaged, SA is proudly family-owned and operated. "To say that we are manufacturers of quality sports training equipment just seems to not capture the essence of who we are," said a representative from Sports Attack. "We do not just design our products; we explore, scrutinize, analyze and engineer our products." For more information, visit sportsattack.com.