Kentucky Earns Team Academic Excellence Award
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky baseball team earned the Team Academic Excellence Award for the seventh consecutive year, the American Baseball Coaches Association announced. UK is the only school in the Southeastern Conference to receive the honor in seven straight years.
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.
To be honored, teams had to meet the following criteria:
- Must be a high school or college team
- Head coach must be a current ABCA member
- Team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 on a 4.0 scale for the 2023-24 academic year
Five Wildcats were named Academic All-District this year, two received Academic All-America honors and Evan Byers received the prestigious NCAA Elite 90 Award as the top student-athlete at the Men’s College World Series.
