Joshua Kreider and the other members of the baseball team at Alvernia University, Reading, together earned team academic excellence honors for the 2023-24 academic year as announced by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and presented by Sports Attack. Kreider is a resident of Elizabethtown.

Alvernia was one of more than 470 collegiate programs across all divisions to earn the team honor. In order to achieve academic excellence recognition, programs had to post a team GPA of 3.0 or greater on a 4.0 scale for the 2023-24 academic year. This is Alvernia's third straight year earning the honor.

Alvernia finished as the 2024 MAC Commonwealth champion and also placed 30 student-athletes on this spring's MAC academic honor roll. Alvernia finished the season with a 29-18 overall record and was 15-6 in conference play.