Tuesday, July 17, 2018

MSSU volleyball team wins academic award

(From MSSU Lions Athletic News)

The Missouri Southern volleyball team has been awarded the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award, and for the second-straight year is on the AVCA's Academic Honor Roll.

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 AVCA announced a total of 973 teams earned the honor, breaking the previous year's record of 835.

On top of this honor, the Lions were also named to the AVCA Academic Honor Roll for NCAA Division II, meaning the team sported one of the top-25 team GPA's in the all of Division II. This past academic year, Southern boasted a team GPA of 3.68. Each member of the team was a part of the MIAA Academic Honor Roll with three student-athletes maintaining perfect 4.00 GPA's and no one on the team carrying below a 3.20 GPA.

The Lions were one of only two teams from the MIAA to earn the Academic Honor Roll distinction, joining Northwest Missouri, while ten of the 12 volleyball playing schools in the MIAA earned the Team Academic Award.

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