GREENSBORO, N.C. – On Wednesday, The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) announced that the University of Colorado Colorado Springs baseball team has earned the 2021-22 Team Academic Excellence Award for the sixth consecutive year.
 
The American Baseball Coaches Association's Team Academic Excellence Award honors high school and college programs coached by ABCA members that post a cumulative grade-point-average over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the current academic year. To qualify for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award, school's must be a high school or college team, the head coach must be a current ABCA member, and the team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale during the current academic year (GPA may not be rounded up).
 
The Mountain Lions collected 15 RMAC All-Academic honors during the 2022 season as redshirt freshman Kit Wigington led the way with a first team selection. Wigington continued to light it up both on the diamond and in the classroom as he went on to receive CoSIDA Academic All-Region First Team and later be named the program's fourth CoSIDA Academic All-American after being selected as a first team recipient.
 
The 2022 Mountain Lions ended the season by making their second consecutive appearance in the RMAC Semifinals and were recently named NCAA Division II Statistical Champions in doubles per game after leading the country with a 2.81 average.