PORTLAND, Ore. --- Make it five in a row for the Portland Pilots baseball team, which earned another ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, it was announced earlier this week. The award honors high school and college programs that posted a GPA over 3.0 for the academic year.
The Pilots have gone a perfect five-for-five earning the award, which was first introduced in 2016. During the 2019-20 academic year, the Pilots combined for a team GPA of 3.30, and 14 players landed on the Dean's List.
In order to qualify for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, programs must meet the following criteria:
• Must be a high school or college team
• Team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.