ABCA Release

GREENSBORO, NC | The Rutgers University-Newark baseball team was honored on Wednesday for their hard work in the classroom as the Scarlet Raiders earned the 2021-22 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) 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 before the nomination deadline of July 14. 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 2021-22 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.

As a team, the Scarlet Raiders finished the year with a record of 16-18 on the diamond, ending their season with four straight wins. Chris Suleski was named ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III Region IV Third-Team while also playing his way onto the All-NJAC Second Team. Academically, Daniel Reardon led the team and was placed on the Academic All-NJAC First Team. In total, the Rutgers-Newark baseball program had 14 members on the NJAC All-Academic Team.