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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.
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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.
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UNC was one of three ACC programs to receive the award this season along with Duke and Louisville.
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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.
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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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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.
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UNC was one of three ACC programs to receive the award this season along with Duke and Louisville.
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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.
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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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