RCS Baseball Team Awarded ABCA Academic Excellence Award
2024 RCHS Baseball Team ABCA Award Winners: Top Row: Coach Tim McPherson, Donovan Cortez, Sam Ryan, Adam Hendren, Carter Eberhard, Tyrone Snipes, Robert Charlton, Head Coach Mark Saake, Coach Dan McNely Middle Row: Andy Banal, Travis Dong, Caleb Busch, Dikaio Ambriz, Joshua Seganish, Gil Butler, Gavin Fanucchi, Cooper Fanucchi, Ace Gallarzan Bottom Row: Chris Huevos, Matthew Chock, Peyton Leytem, Jaeden Honora, Jacob Tang, Tyler Skjong, Johnny Aguilar.
The 2024 Redwood Christian High School Baseball Team was recently awarded the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award. The ABCA has 15,300 members.
RCHS was one of only twenty-seven public, private, religious or Christian high school teams in California to receive this award, and only one of four in Alameda County.
The criteria for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award include: Must be a high school or college team; Head coach must be a current ABCA member; Team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale during the academic year. GPA may not be rounded up.
The grade point average for the 2024 Redwood Christian High School Eagles was a combined 3.34 over the entire year rising to 3.56 during the baseball season when Coach Saake could “encourage” them.
Coach Mark Saake responded to being informed of the recognition stating "I am so very proud of these young men. Not only for what the accomplished on the field this season, but for how they attacked the classroom as well. Each of our players contributed to us receiving this team award. Well done."
Dr. Al Hearne, Superintendent of Redwood Christian Schools, is “very impressed by the hard-work ethic by Coach Saake’s team as they made the NorCal Sectional Play-offs again this past season excelling on the field and in the classroom.”
