Baseball Earns ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award For Ninth Straight Season

GREENSBORO, NC – Tulane’s baseball workforce was chosen for the American Baseball Coaches Association’s (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award for the ninth straight season the group lately introduced. The award acknowledges ABCA members from all ranges of highschool and collegiate baseball that achieved a cumulative GPA of three.0 or increased on a 4.0 scale throughout the 2024-25 educational 12 months.

This is the ninth straight 12 months that Tulane has earned the ABCA Team Academic Excellence. Tulane is one in every of solely 11 colleges that has been named in every of the final 9 seasons.

This 12 months, greater than 440 school applications and 300 highschool applications have been acknowledged for his or her excellent educational achievement.

To be honored, groups needed to meet the next standards:

– Must be a highschool or school workforce

– Head Coach Must be a present ABCA member

– Team will need to have a minimal cumulative GPA of three.00 on a 4.0 scale for the 2024-25 educational 12 months.

The American Baseball Coaches Association had a protracted custom of recognizing the achievements of baseball coaches and student-athletes. The ABCA/Rawlings All-America Teams are the nation’s oldest, based in 1949, and the ABCA’s awards program additionally consists of the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Awards, the ABCA/ATEC Regional and National Coaches of the Year and a number of other different main awards such because the ABCA Hall of Fame and the Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award.

Tulane went 33-25 in 2025 plus reached the AAC Championship Game for the third straight season. The program had 5 All-AAC choices on the 12 months in pitcher Michael Lombardi (First Team), second baseman Connor Rasmussen (First Team), designated hitter Gavin Schulz (Second Team), outfielder Jason Wachs (All-Freshman Team) and outfielder Tanner Chun (All-Freshman Team). The program additionally had three chosen for the AAC’s All-Tournament Team in Schulz, Tayler Montiel and Theo Bryant IV. Tulane completed off the marketing campaign seeing three gamers drafted within the 2025 MLB Draft in Lombardi (2nd spherical – 61st choose – Kansas City Royals), Montiel (twelfth spherical – 363rd choose – Arizona Diamondbacks) and Rasmussen (fifteenth spherical – 458th choose – Kansas City Royals). The three choices this season was the third time within the final 5 years Tulane has had three or extra gamers chosen in a single draft and the twenty fifth time since 1965.

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