Baseball Collects ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

Central Catholic has received the 2023 America Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award.

The Fighting Irish are earning this prestigious honor for the 4th-straight season.  The Scarlet & Gray is one of only 17 high schools recognized in the state of Ohio. Overall, more than 300 high school programs and more than 450 collegiate programs were chosen with this year’s award.

Teams from high school and every level of college 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 2022-23 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.

This spring, CCHS posted a 14-12 overall record, including a 7-7 ledger in the TRAC’s final season.