GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Caltech baseball team received 2023-24 Team Academic Excellence Award honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) on Wednesday, the organization announced.

The team earned the distinction for attaining a cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) for the 2023-24 academic year.

The award comes after five Beavers achieved Academic All-District status from College Sports Communicators this past June; senior Leo Jenkins (New York, N.Y. / Beacon) along with juniors Thorsen Kristufek (McKinney, Texas / McKinney), Edward Speer (Austin, Texas / Leander), Cameron McNamee (Great Falls, Mont. / Great Falls) and Jack Fishel (Baltimore, Md. / Boys' Latin School of Maryland) collected the prestigious recognition for posting a cumulative grade-point average of 3.50 or higher while either competing in 90 percent of the team's games or starting in 66 percent of them. Institutions could nominate a maximum of five student-athletes.

On the field, it was a historic year for head coach Kevin Whitehead and the squad, who finished the spring with the program's highest win total in 64 years. Perhaps most notably, the squad nabbed a 5-2 win over MIT and a 4-3 win over Redlands among 10 total victories. At the individual level, sophomore right-handed pitcher Brendan Flaherty (Narragansett, R.I. / Lake Forest Academy) cemented his name in the history books after breaking a host of school records, including single-season ERA (4.19), strikeouts thrown (82), opposing batting average (.262) and WHIP (1.31).

The full list of 2023-24 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award winners is available here. For more information about the ABCA, visit abca.org.

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