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Memphis baseball recognized with Team Academic Excellence Award
Jul 26, 2019 | Baseball
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – For the third straight season, the Memphis baseball team has been recognized by the ABCA as a Team Academic Excellence Award recipient.
The award recognizes college baseball programs that earn at least a 3.0 team GPA on a 4.0 scale. The Tigers, who finished the 2018-19 academic year with a 3.28 GPA, join American Athletic Conference members Cincinnati, ECU, Tulane and Wichita State in earning the annual honor.
This week's ABCA award announcement caps a successful season in the classroom for the Tigers. Individually, junior Alec Trela earned Google Cloud Academic All-America honors. Along with Trela, seniors Cale Hennemann and Kyle Ouellette earned First Team Google Cloud Academic All-District recognition.
Additionally, 24 baseball student-athletes were named to the AAC All-Academic Team earlier this month, the second-most in the UofM athletic department behind football (30).
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/Diamond Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other major awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and the Ethics in Coaching Award.
The award recognizes college baseball programs that earn at least a 3.0 team GPA on a 4.0 scale. The Tigers, who finished the 2018-19 academic year with a 3.28 GPA, join American Athletic Conference members Cincinnati, ECU, Tulane and Wichita State in earning the annual honor.
This week's ABCA award announcement caps a successful season in the classroom for the Tigers. Individually, junior Alec Trela earned Google Cloud Academic All-America honors. Along with Trela, seniors Cale Hennemann and Kyle Ouellette earned First Team Google Cloud Academic All-District recognition.
Additionally, 24 baseball student-athletes were named to the AAC All-Academic Team earlier this month, the second-most in the UofM athletic department behind football (30).
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/Diamond Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other major awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and the Ethics in Coaching Award.
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