Bryce Hayes
For Immediate Release
SEGUIN, Texas — The Texas Lutheran baseball team was one of 800 member college and high school programs from across the country to receive the 2023-24 Team Academic Excellence Award from the American Baseball Coaches Association(ABCA), the association announced Wednesday.
Texas Lutheran was one of two SCAC schools (Schreiner) to be recognized with the award.
The Bulldogs had 12 players earn SCAC Spring Academic Honor Roll this spring.
Teams from every level of college and high school baseball were honored with this year’s award, which highlights programs coached by ABCA members that posted a GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for the cumulative 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.
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