KALAMAZOO, Mich. – The Western Michigan baseball team has earned the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, presented by Sports Attack, for the 2021-22 academic year it was announced on Wednesday.
The award recognizes programs coached by ABCA members whose team GPA is 3.0 or higher for the entire 2021-22 academic year.
Head coach
Billy Gernon's squad posted a 3.62 team GPA during the fall semester, and followed that up with a 3.63 GPA in the spring, extending the program's streak of consecutive semesters with a team GPA of 3.5 or higher to nine in a row. Across the two semesters, WMU boasted a total of 19 4.0 GPAs, including a program-record 11 4.0's this spring. Each semester, 21 Broncos were named to the Dean's List.
Following the season, Western Michigan had 15 Academic All-MAC honorees, with
Jimmy Allen,
Hayden Berg,
Greg Budig,
Connor Charping,
Gavin Doyle,
Jack Huisman,
Brenden Lovell,
Justin McIntyre,
Ryan Missal,
Will Morrison,
Dylan Nevar,
Joe Shapiro, Easton Sikroski,
Cade Sullivan and
Luke Thelen all receiving the honor.
The full list of 2021-22 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award recipients can be found
here.
