LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today that 764 teams have earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2015-2016 season. This number breaks the previous year's total of 757 to set an all-time high. The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) landed nine of the 119 NCAA Division II women's teams recognized.
The nine (9) GLIAC programs to earn AVCA Team Academic Award are: Ashland University, Ferris State University, Michigan Tech University, Northern Michigan University, Northwood University (MI), Ohio Dominican University, Saginaw Valley State University, The University of Findlay, Wayne State University.
The award, which was initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale.
"Congratulations to the coaches and institutions that won the 2016 AVCA Team Academic Award," said AVCA Executive Director Kathy DeBoer. "It is no accident that a volleyball coaches association recognizes academic excellence as a team, rather than an individual, achievement. Players influence each other, both in execution on the court and discipline in the classroom."
