Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award

PROVIDENCE, R.I.– The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today [July 22] that 1,125 teams have earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2018-19 season. This number breaks the previous year's total of 977, to set an all-time high. The Providence College volleyball team was honored among 189 NCAA Division I programs that earned recognition. Additionally, the Friars also were named to the AVCA Team Academic Honor Roll for achieving a team-grade point average that ranks among the top-25 in NCAA Division I.

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.

The AVCA Team Academic Award is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honored. Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients has increased every single year but two, while more than doubling the total over the last eight academic years. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 1,125.

Over 1,000 different schools have earned the award in the program's 25-year history, with exactly 9,586 awards been given out in total.

To read the AVCA's official release and view a complete list of 2018-19 AVCA Team Academic Award Winners, click the following link: https://www.avca.org/awards/avca-team-academic-award.html

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