Alabama Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award
7/25/2016 11:34:00 AM | Volleyball
The Crimson Tide are one of four SEC teams on this year’s list
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama Volleyball is one of 131 Division I women's volleyball programs that earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2015-16 school year, announced Monday.
The award honors collegiate athletes of all levels as well as high school athletes, as a total of 762 teams took home awards this season across Division I, II, III, NAIA, two-year colleges, NJCCAA, collegiate men, high school girls, high school boys and college sand volleyball. The award honors teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team GPA on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale.
This is the second-straight season in which Alabama has won the award. The Crimson Tide was one of four Southeastern Conference teams on this year's list, along with Missouri, South Carolina and Kentucky. The Crimson Tide and the Wildcats were the only two among those four to have a player be named Academic All-America, with Alabama's Sierra Wilson and Kentucky's Morgan Bergren named to the First Team as seniors this past season.
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