Eleven Diamond Heels Earn All-ACC Academic Honors

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – 11 North Carolina baseball gamers have been named to the 2026 All-ACC Academic Baseball Team, the convention introduced Tuesday.

The Tar Heels who’s work within the classroom earned them a spot on the listing embrace Carter French, Gavin Gallaher, Caden Glauber, Tyler Howe, Owen Hull, Ryan Lynch, Matthew Matthijs, Cooper Nicholson, Erik Paulsen, Jake Schaffner, and Macon Winslow. It is the second straight season with a double-digit quantity of Carolina gamers on the listing. 

Matthijs makes his fourth look on the annual listing whereas Gallaher makes his third, each doing so in every of their collegiate seasons. French, Lynch, and Winslow every seem for the second straight yr. 

The 2026 Baseball All-Academic Team options 169 student-athletes from the league’s 16 baseball applications. Academic necessities for choice to the All-ACC Academic Team are a 3.0 grade level common for the earlier semester and a 3.0 cumulative common throughout one’s tutorial profession. In addition, student-athletes should compete in not less than 50 % of their workforce’s contests. Scholar-Athlete of the Year nominees should be an undergraduate student-athlete who’s an upperclassman and has been enrolled on the establishment for not less than one tutorial yr with a cumulative GPA of three.0, together with a 3.0 in the newest two semesters or three quarters.