Owls Earn Team Academic Excellence Award for Seventh Straight Year

BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic baseball team has earned the Team Academic Excellence Award, as bestowed by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and presented by Sports Attack, for the seventh consecutive season.

For the spring semester, the squad earned a 3.17 cumulative team GPA. Coaches could nominate their teams for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award after the conclusion of their spring semester 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 during the 2024-25 academic year

Nearly 500 collegiate programs were recognized with this year's award. The Owls are one of six American Conference baseball programs to make the list.

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. Additionally, FAU head coach John McCormack currently serves as the ABCA President.

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