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Morristown-Beard Baseball Team Honored for Academic Excellence
MBS baseball team among 70 schools nationwide to receive Academic Excellence Award
For the second year in a row, the Morristown-Beard School varsity baseball team has been selected to receive the Team Academic Excellence Award from the American Baseball Coaches Association.
This year’s award was presented to 70 schools nationwide, and only three schools from New Jersey: Morristown-Beard School, New Providence High School, and The Hun School of Princeton.
To be eligible for the award, high school teams had to be current ABCA members with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale during the 2016-17 academic year.
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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/Diamond Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and Ethics in Coaching Award.
The 2017 Morristown-Beard School varsity baseball team was under the direction of Head Coach John Sheppard along with assistant coaches Joe DeKasar, Ken Monteith, Tom Moore, Scott Schroeder, and Eric Shea.
