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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. - The Lincoln University baseball team was named to the 2020-21 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, the American Baseball Coaches Association recently announced.
"I am so proud of our team achieving this award this year," said Lincoln University baseball coach Anthony Pla. "With everything we had to go through with the pandemic and with having online classes, this is a very special accomplishment. Having so many student-athletes rising to the challenge despite having a traditional academic year is a great exclamation point to the year. We talk about academics from the first day we step on campus and we are very proud of all of our players especially the seven young men that earned their degree this spring. We appreciate and thank the ABCA for honoring the work they do in the classroom as well as what they do on the field and this award is something we strive for every year."
Lincoln's baseball team posted a grade point average of 3.12 this season with 18 of the team's 28 student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA or higher. Seven of the 18 student-athletes finished the season with a 3.5 GPA or higher.
The organization recognized 580 teams – 200 high school and 380 collegiate – this year. Coaches, who are active ABCA members, were able to nominate their teams that recorded the minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale.
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-America 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.
