GREENSBORO, N.C. - Three Southern Conference baseball programs were awarded Team Academic Excellence Awards from the American Baseball Coaches Assocation (ABCA), the ABCA announced Tuesday.

The Citadel, Mercer and Samford were among the 65 Division I baseball programs who received the 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 2019-20 academic year. This marks both Mercer’s and Samford’s fourth consecutive year earning the award.

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/Diamond 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.

Read ABCA’s full release here.