LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV baseball team earned the 2025-26 American Baseball Coaches Association's (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, presented by Sports Attack, the organization announced on Wednesday. The Hustlin' Rebels were one of 132 NCAA Division I teams and one of six Mountain West squads (Fresno State, Grand Canyon, New Mexico, San Diego State, Washington State) from the 2025-26 season to claim the scholastic honor. 

The award also marks the eighth-consecutive year that a UNLV squad has received the accolade. Additionally, the Hustlin' Rebels tallied a team cumulative GPA of 3.25. The Hustlin' Rebels went 30-25 on the year and reached its second straight Mountain West tournament appearance and 22nd overall MW tournament berth.

Previously, the Rebels had 22 members of the squad named to the Spring 2026 Academic All-MW Team. Moreover, Nin Burns II, Reggie Bussey, Carson Lane, Gunnar Myro and Felix Ong were tabbed to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team in May. Myro was named to the 2026 College Sports Communicators Academic All-America® Division I Baseball Second Team, the Hustlin' Rebels' sixth Academic All-American in program history.

The ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award is open to any high school or collegiate (NCAA Division I, II, and III; NAIA; and junior college) team that has a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above (on a 4.0 scale) during the 2025-26 academic year. In all, over 800 programs received this year's award.

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.