ECU Baseball Claims Tenth-Straight ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina baseball program has obtained the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award for an unprecedented Tenth-straight 12 months the group introduced Wednesday.

Nearly 300 highschool packages and 440 collegiate packages had been acknowledged with this 12 months’s award.

On the heels of their fourth American Conference Tournament title and seventh-straight NCAA Regional look, the Pirates compiled a program-best 3.72 cumulative grade level common in 2024-25 and has registered a 3.41 or larger for the previous eight tutorial cycles. The earlier watermark was set in 2020-21 with a 3.64 GPA.

Under Godwin, a two-time Academic All-America choice as a participant at ECU, the Pirates have mixed to have upwards of 400 student-athletes on the East Carolina Director of Athletics Honor Roll (3.0 GPA or larger). In his 11 years main this system, over 200 student-athletes have earned American Conference All-Academic Team honors – together with each member of final 12 months’s membership.

ECU has additionally earned 9 consecutive American Conference Team Academic Excellence Awards and has boasted the best group GPA of all baseball packages within the American because the 2015-16 tutorial 12 months. Seven gamers have earned College Sports Communicators (CSC), previously CoSIDA Academic All-America honors since 2016 (Travis Watkins/2016 first group, Charlie Yorgen/2016 third group, Jake Agnos/2019 first group, Alec Burleson/2019 third group and 2020 first group, Matt Bridges/2021 third group, Carter Cunningham/2024 first group and Trey Yesavage/2024 first group). In 2020, Burleson turned the third participant in program historical past to be named a two-time Academic All-America choice becoming a member of Godwin (1999, 2001) and Sam Narron (2001-02).