Graceland Baseball Earned 2023-24 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

Lamoni, Iowa—The Graceland University baseball team received the 2023-24 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award. This is the third consecutive year baseball has earned this award.

More than 470 collegiate programs were recognized with this year's award.

To be eligible for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, a program must have maintained a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 on a 4.0 scale for the 2023-24 academic year.

The Yellowjackets would have a team GPA of 3.182.

Baseball would have 13 athletes named to the 2023-24 Heart Scholar-Athlete list: Dylan Batista, Jake Bigham, Nicolas Boscan, Kellen Cameron, Jorge Diaz, Brian Knutsen, Gavin McLean, Gabriel Perez, Ybrahim Quevedo, Zach Tanabe, Thiago Telles, Simon Victoriano and Cade Witzke.

Named to the 2024 Daktronics NAIA Baseball Scholar-Athlete list was Brian Knutsen, Gabriel Perez, Gavin McLean, Jake Bigham, Joseph Moore, Josh Obersteadt, Simon Victoriano, Thiago Telles, Ybrahim Quevedo and Zach Tanabe.

The American Baseball Coaches Association is proud to recognize the over 800-member college and high school programs from across the country that have been awarded the 2023-24 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, which is presented by Sports Attack. 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 2023-24 academic year.

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