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Diamond Heels Earn ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award
July 27, 2022 | Baseball, Academics
CHAPEL HILL – The University of North Carolina baseball team earned the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award for the 2021-22 academic year the organization announced Wednesday.
The award honors high school and college programs coached by ABCA members that post a grade-point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the current academic year. Over 250 high school programs and more than 420 collegiate programs were recognized with this year's award.
UNC was one of three ACC programs to receive the award this season along with Duke and Louisville.
Earlier this year, the Diamond Heels had six student-athletes – Gage Gillian, Vance Honeycutt, Mikey Madej, Davis Palermo, Brandon Schaeffer, and Danny Serretti – named to the All-ACC Academic Team with a total of 22 UNC players making the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
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.
The award honors high school and college programs coached by ABCA members that post a grade-point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the current academic year. Over 250 high school programs and more than 420 collegiate programs were recognized with this year's award.
UNC was one of three ACC programs to receive the award this season along with Duke and Louisville.
Earlier this year, the Diamond Heels had six student-athletes – Gage Gillian, Vance Honeycutt, Mikey Madej, Davis Palermo, Brandon Schaeffer, and Danny Serretti – named to the All-ACC Academic Team with a total of 22 UNC players making the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
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.
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