AVCA Honors Women’s Volleyball With Team Academic Award

The women's volleyball team earned its second straight ACVA Team Academic honor (Gil Talbot).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second straight year, the Harvard women’s volleyball team has received the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award. Harvard is one of 93 other Division I women’s teams to earn the academic award as the NCAA Division I Women’s division had the highest number of teams honored, as well as the largest percentage of teams honored at 34%.

In all, 450 teams from eight collegiate and high school divisions earned recognition from the AVCA, breaking the previous record of 409 team from a year ago.  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.

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