Montclair, NJ –The Montclair State baseball team was honored for its work in the classroom on Wednesday as the Red Hawks were among the 380 programs from across all three NCAA Divisions to earn the 2020-21 American Baseball Coaches Association Team Academic Excellence Award.
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 12. 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 2020-21 academic year
The award is among the many academic achievements for the baseball team this past academic year. The Red Hawks captured the Highest Team GPA Award in April while junior
PETER COSENTINO was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team. Outfielder
ANDREW OLLWERTHER, tabbed as the MSU Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year, was selected to the NJAC Academic First-Team with MSU placing 11 on the Honorable Mention list –
SAM ANGELO,
NICHOLAS COLUCCIO, Cosentino,
PATRICK CUCCURULLO,
MILES FEASTER,
DARREN GONZALEZ,
JUSTIN KOSINSKI,
BEN LEVINE,
SEAN LEWANDOSKI,
JASON MOORE and
JOE NORTON.
In addition, five players were inducted into the National College Athlete Honor Society (Chi Alpha Sigma), 14 named to the Dean's List for the Fall 2020 semester and 25 student-athletes joining the Montclair State Athletics 3.0 Club.
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-America 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.
