After advancing to their third straight NCAA Super Regional, the Seton Hill baseball program picked up an academic award on Wednesday afternoon.  This one is from the American Baseball Coaches Association as the Griffins were named an ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award recipient.  The award is presented by Sports Attack.  The Griffins have earned the award from the ABCA in nine of the last ten seasons.  SHU finished with the highest GPA in the PSAC with a 3.445.  SHU was one of three programs from the PSAC to earn the award.   

The 2024-25 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award is an award which honors high school and college programs that posted a GPA over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the academic year. Nearly 750 high school and college programs were recognized with the award.

Teams from NCAA Divisions I, II and III, junior college and high school were honored.

The American Baseball Coaches Association has a long tradition of recognizing the achievements of baseball coaches and student-athletes. The ABCA/Rawlings All-America Teams are the nation's oldest, founded in 1949, and the ABCA's awards program also includes the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Awards, the ABCA/Diamond Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other major awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and the Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award.