ROCKFORD, Ill. - The Rockford University baseball program was honored by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) this week with its Team Academic Excellence Award for the Regents' outstanding accomplishments in the classroom during the 2022-23 academic year. This marks the sixth time in the last seven years, and the fifth straight year, that Rockford has earned the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award (2016-17, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23).

The ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award is given out annually by the American Baseball Coaches Association to recognize excellence in the classroom over the most recent academic year. A team must maintain a 3.00 cumulative team grade point average and have its the head coach be a member of the ABCA in order to be considered for the award. 

ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

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 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.