SFA Volleyball Earns Academic Award
7/23/2012 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
July 23, 2012
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Ladyjack volleyball team was recently honored as one of 102 Division I women's teams in the nation to earn the AVCA Team Academic Award.
SFA was of only four Southland Conference institutions and six from the state of Texas to receive the honor. It is the second consecutive season SFA has earned the award, having also won the award five consecutive times from 2000 to 2004.
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 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 has increased every single year but one, while amassing an overall 200% increase over the span of the last decade. Since the award's inception in 1993, the award has risen by an astounding 760%.
NCAA Division I recorded their highest-ever total number of recipients, honoring 102 programs while Division III easily surpassed last year's record of 57 winners with 67 this year. Division III also set a new record with 90 winners and the high school division increased their all-time high of 192 recipients to 220. Finally, the NCAA men broke new ground landing a record seven schools on this year's AVCA Team Academic Award list.
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