Pirate Baseball Earns National Recognition for Academic Excellence

The American Baseball Coaches Association is proud to recognize the nearly 700 member college and high school programs from across the country that have been awarded the 2021-22 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, which is presented by Sports Attack. VC achieved an overall grade point average of 3.30 for the entire 2021-22 academic year to earn recognition from the ABCA.

Ventura was one of 420 collegiate programs, 60 at the community college level and six from California, to be recognized by the ABCA.

The Pirates were led academically by four student athletes with perfect 4.0 GPA's for the academic year, including Gage Allen, Anthony Betancourt, Dawson Radik, Nick Schnopp and Connor Vogel. Other VC baseball players with a GPA of 3.5 or above for the year included Jonah Schaller, Matthew Panzica, Andrew Savage, Ewan Ferguson, Livio Bundi, KJ Moo-Young, Julien Monks, Reiss Calvin, Harun Pelja, Jake Read, Cooper Smith and Casey Turturici.

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 entire 2021-22 academic year. Coaches were able to nominate their teams for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award following the conclusion of their spring semesters prior to the nomination deadline of July 14. To be honored, teams had to meet the following criteria:

• Must be a high school or college team
• Head coach must be a current ABCA member
• 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'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.

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