GREENSBORO, N.C. — The American Baseball Coaches Association has announced the 2025-26 Team Academic Excellence Award Winners. The Concordia-St. Paul baseball team is one of more than 850 member high school and college programs to receive the award.
The award honors ABCA member programs that posted a cumulative team GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale during the 2025-26 academic year. For the Golden Bears this marks the seventh consecutive year they have received the honor.
CSP was one of seven NSIC programs recognized, joined by Augustana, Minnesota State, Northern State, St. Cloud State, Southwest Minnesota State and Jamestown.
This year's award recipients include more than 500 college programs and more than 320 high school programs.
Following the conclusion of the spring semester, coaches were invited to nominate their teams for the award before the July 17 deadline. To qualify, a program was required to meet the following criteria:
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Be a high school or college baseball program
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Have a head coach who is a current ABCA member
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Post a minimum cumulative team GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the 2025-26 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.
