Tribe Baseball Receives ABCA Academic Award

College of William & Mary

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The William & Mary baseball team received recognition for its hard work in the classroom after being honored with the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award. The distinction acknowledges teams coached by ABCA members that posted a GPA over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the 2016-17 academic year. The Tribe was one of 38 Division I programs, the only D-I school in the state of Virginia and one of two CAA teams (UNCW) to gain the praise. In total, 220 programs were recognized with the academic award, including 69 high school programs and 60 teams from NCAA Div. III. 
Leading the way for W&M in the realm of academics this year was senior Ryder Miconi and junior Ryan Hall. In addition to picking up his second CAA All-Academic nod, Miconi repeated as the conference's Baseball Scholar Athlete of the Year. Furthermore, Hall garnered CoSIDA Academic All-District laurels as a finance major. 
The ABCA 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. Print Friendly Version


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