Tide Volleyball Wins 2014-15 AVCA Team Academic Award
7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Alabama volleyball is one of a record-setting 146 Division I teams to win the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2014-15 season, announced Wednesday.
The AVCA has posted record-setting numbers in the award every season since 2006-07 and have been presenting the award since 1992-93. The award honors collegiate athletes of all levels as well as high school athletes, as a total of 752 teams took home awards this season across Division I, II, III, NAIA, two-year colleges, NCCAA, collegiate men, high school girls, high school boys and college sand volleyball.
To be honored with the award, a team must display excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team GPA. Alabama is one of six SEC teams to win the award this season, along with Arkansas, Auburn, Kentucky, Missouri and South Carolina. Of those six award winners, Alabama and Kentucky were the only two to make the NCAA Tournament last season.
Alabama was the only SEC team to have any AVCA Academic All-Americans last year, as Sierra Wilson and Krystal Rivers made Crimson Tide history as the first teammates to win Academic All-American honors in the same season. Wilson and Rivers were also two of the seven Alabama players named to the 2014 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll.
