Kentucky Earns Team Academic Excellence Award

The Kentucky baseball team earned the Team Academic Excellence Award for the eighth consecutive year, the American Baseball Coaches Association announced. UK is the only school in the Southeastern Conference to receive the honor each of the last eight 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

Four Wildcats were named Academic All-District this year, Cole Hage received Academic All-America honors and nine players recently were named to the school’s Dean’s List for the spring semester.