GREENVILLE, N.C. — The East Carolina baseball program has received the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award for the ninth-straight year the organization announced Wednesday.
Nearly 350 high school programs and more than 470 collegiate programs were recognized with this year’s award.
On the heels of their fifth-consecutive regular season American Athletic Conference title, the Pirates compiled a 3.58 cumulative grade point average in 2023-24 and has registered a 3.41 or higher GPA for the past seven academic cycles – including a program-best 3.64 mark in 2020-21.
Under Godwin, a two-time Academic All-America selection as a player at ECU, the Pirates have combined to have upwards of 400 student-athletes on the East Carolina Director of Athletics Honor Roll (3.0 GPA or higher). In his 10 years leading the program, nearly 200 student-athletes have earned American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team honors – including every member of the 2023-24 club.
ECU has also earned nine consecutive AAC Team Academic Excellence Awards and has boasted the highest team GPA of all baseball programs in The American since the 2015-16 academic year. Seven players have earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors since 2016 (Travis Watkins/2016 first team, Charlie Yorgen/2016 third team, Jake Agnos/2019 first team, Alec Burleson/2019 third team and 2020 first team, Matt Bridges/2021 third team, Carter Cunningham/2024 first team and Trey Yesavage/2024 first team). In 2020, Burleson became the third player in program history to be named a two-time Academic All-America selection joining Godwin (1999, 2001) and Sam Narron (2001-02).
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