Five HL Volleyball Teams Honored by AVCA for Academic Excellence

The Horizon League had five programs honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association on Wednesday for academic excellence.

Green Bay, Milwaukee, Valparaiso, Wright State and Youngstown State all earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2014-2015 season.

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 has become one of the AVCA's fastest growing awards programs, seeing an impressive surge in teams honored over the past several years. Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients have increased every single year but one, while amassing a 476 team increase over the span of the last decade. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 752.