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Troy Volleyball Earns AVCA Academic Honor, Along with Four Others
7/30/2010 9:23:46 PM | Volleyball
NEW ORLEANS - The Troy University volleyball team was one of five Sun Belt Conference volleyball programs honored on Wednesday by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) as the organization announced its annual AVCA Team Academic Awards for the 2009-10 season. 450 awards were handed out by the AVCA smashing the previous record of 409 set last year.
UALR, Denver, South Alabama and WKU were also included in the 94 women's volleyball teams to be honored by the AVCA.
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. The program has increased by over 300% in the last 10 years and by 79% in the past three years alone. Both NCAA Division I and NCAA Division II recorded their highest-ever total numbers of recipients, with the former honoring 94 programs and the latter honoring 55 programs. The high school division also set a new bar with its 179 honorees.
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