GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The Caldwell University baseball squad, which posted a cumulative 3.13 GPA during the 2025-26 academic year has earned the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, presented by Sports Attack, the organization announced today.
To qualify, a program was required to meet the following criteria:
- Be a high school or college baseball program
- Have a head coach who is a current ABCA member
- Post a minimum cumulative team GPA of 3.0 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's 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.
The full list of nearly 500 college and 320 high school programs
earning the distinction is available here.
The award punctuates a season for Caldwell baseball that also saw seniors
Chris Hopf (Middlesex, N.J.) and
John Rigas (Lincoln Park, N.J.) named to the CACC All-Academic team, and Hopf, Rigas, and juniors
Jimmy Turchi (Bridgewater, N.J.) and
Vinny Sangataldo (Medford, N.J.) selected to the 2026 Collegiate Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team.
Additionally, 28 Caldwell baseball student-athletes were named to the CACC Spring 2026 Academic Honor Roll.
