Baseball Earns Eighth Consecutive ABCA Academic Excellence Award
July 26, 2023 | Baseball
GREENSBORO N.C. – The East Carolina baseball team has received the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award for the eighth-straight year the organization announced Wednesday.
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The Pirates, who sported a 3.57 cumulative grade point average in 2022-23, have excelled in the classroom registering a 3.41 or higher GPA for the past six academic cycles - including a program-best 3.64 in 2020-21. The squad posted a team-best 3.69 GPA in the spring of 2021, topping the previous mark of 3.61 in the spring of 2020.
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Under Godwin, a two-time Academic All-America selection as a player at ECU, the Pirates have combined to have nearly 400 student-athletes on the East Carolina Director of Athletics Honor Roll (3.0 GPA or higher). In his nine years leading the program, over 150 student-athletes have earned American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team honors – including 35 of 38 members of the 2023 club.
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ECU has also earned eight consecutive AAC Team Academic Excellence Awards and has boasted the highest team GPA of all baseball programs in The American since the 2015-16 academic year. Five players have earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors since 2016 (Travis Watkins/2016 first team, Charlie Yorgen/2016 third team, Jake Agnos/2019 first team, Alec Burleson/2019 third team and 2020 first team and Matt Bridges/2021 third team). In 2020, Burleson became the third player in program history to be named a two-time Academic All-America selection joining Godwin (1999, 2001) and Sam Narron (2001-02).
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The Pirates, who sported a 3.57 cumulative grade point average in 2022-23, have excelled in the classroom registering a 3.41 or higher GPA for the past six academic cycles - including a program-best 3.64 in 2020-21. The squad posted a team-best 3.69 GPA in the spring of 2021, topping the previous mark of 3.61 in the spring of 2020.
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Under Godwin, a two-time Academic All-America selection as a player at ECU, the Pirates have combined to have nearly 400 student-athletes on the East Carolina Director of Athletics Honor Roll (3.0 GPA or higher). In his nine years leading the program, over 150 student-athletes have earned American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team honors – including 35 of 38 members of the 2023 club.
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ECU has also earned eight consecutive AAC Team Academic Excellence Awards and has boasted the highest team GPA of all baseball programs in The American since the 2015-16 academic year. Five players have earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors since 2016 (Travis Watkins/2016 first team, Charlie Yorgen/2016 third team, Jake Agnos/2019 first team, Alec Burleson/2019 third team and 2020 first team and Matt Bridges/2021 third team). In 2020, Burleson became the third player in program history to be named a two-time Academic All-America selection joining Godwin (1999, 2001) and Sam Narron (2001-02).
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