GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) revealed its Team Academic Excellence Award winners for the 2025-26 academic year on Wednesday as Harris-Stowe State University baseball was recognized as one of the teams.

The Hornets posted a 3.165 team grade point average across the 2025-26 academic year.

Teams from every level of college and high school baseball were honored with this year's award, which highlights programs coached by ABCA members that posted a gpa of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for the cumulative 2025-26 academic year.

Nearly 320 high school programs and more than 500 collegiate programs were recognized with this year's award. Coaches were able to nominate their teams for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award with the criteria that they must be a high school or college team, the head coach must be a current ABCA member and the team must have a minimum cumulative gpa of 3.00 on a 4.0 scale for the 2025-26 academic year.

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 awards program also includes the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Awards, the ABCA/ATEC 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.

Sports Attack, which is in its tenth year of sponsoring the prestigious award, was founded 1995 in Reno, NV, but its design and manufacturing pre-date the first wheel machines in the baseball industry, well over 50 years ago. With three active partners still heavily engaged, Sports Attack is proudly family-owned and operated.  They build their equipment from the ground up, by hand, the old-fashioned way.  For more information, visit sportsattack.com.

A full list of Team Academic Excellence recipients is available at ABCA.