2023 Baseball Wins ABCA Academic Excellence Award
LAHC Baseball receives national academic award
LA Harbor College Baseball received the American Baseball Coaches Association 2022-2023 Team Academic Excellence Award. The team finished with a team GPA of 3.17, earning the national academic award for the first time in program history.
The 2022-2023 LA Harbor College Baseball program was one of only eight teams to receive the award throughout the CCCAA and the only team from the South Coast Conference to be recognized. ABCA Press Release-Team Academic Excellence Award
The American Baseball Coaches Association's Team Academic Excellence Award honors high school and college programs coached by ABCA members that post a cumulative Grade Point Average over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
Criteria for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award include:
· Must be a high school or college team
· Head coach must be a current ABCA member
· Team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale during the 2022-23 academic year. GPA may not be rounded up.
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 Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award.