GREENSBORO, N.C. – The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) has announced that the Augustana baseball team has once again received the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award. Augustana carried a 3.32 GPA in 2022-23.
 
The Vikings had a stellar 2023 campaign while raising their GPA from the previous year (3.269). Augustana won the NSIC Championship for the second-straight year and claimed their second-ever Central Region Champion to qualify for the NCAA Division II World Series. In addition, head coach Tim Huber was named the ABCA Central Region Coach of the Year.
 
To be eligible for the award, the team 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 during the 2021-22 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.