Elgin, Ill. – The Elgin Community College baseball team earned its first ever American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award.
This comes with the team earning its highest grade point average in program history with a 3.04 during the 2024-25 school year.
Teams from every level of college and high school baseball were honored with this year's award, which recognizes programs coached by ABCA members that achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale for the 2024-25 academic year.
Over 750 member programs, including more than 440 collegiate and nearly 300 high school programs nationwide, received the 2024-25 award from the ABCA.
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.
