Valpo Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award, Named to Team Academic Honor Roll
The Valpo volleyball program received the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2022-23 academic year, as announced by the AVCA. It marks the 18th time in the last 20 seasons that the program has earned the award. In addition, Valpo was named to the AVCA Team Academic Honor Roll for maintaining a cumulative team GPA which ranks among the top 20% of Division I programs.
The team academic award is given to college and high school teams which display excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade point average on a 4.0 scale. The nominating head coaches must be AVCA members. Valpo was one of 11 programs in the Missouri Valley Conference for the 2022-23 academic year to be honored.
For the fourth time in seven years since the introduction of the honor, Valpo also earned a spot on the AVCA Team Academic Honor Roll, which honors the programs among the best in their respective divisions in GPA. Valpo was one of just three Valley institutions represented on the Honor Roll, joined by Illinois State and UNI.