The Missouri Southern volleyball team has been awarded the United States Marine Corps/American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award (AVCA), the organization announced this week.
The award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors volleyball teams that maintain a year-long cumulative grade-point average of 3.30 on a 4.0 scale or 4.10 on a 5.0 scale.
In terms of USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award winners by subgroup, girls high school led the way with 461 recipients. In all three NCAA Women's Divisions, over 50% of the membership won the award, led by 68% in DI, 57% in DII and 53% in DIII.
In the emerging sport of beach volleyball, 49% of teams won the award and in the fastest growing sector of Collegiate Men, 38 schools were honored, doubling the number from the previous year.
This year, the volleyball team had the top team GPA in the athletic department at 3.583. The Lions had 12 players with a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher and 14 with GPA's of 3.00 or higher. Alicia Pickett concluded her four-year career with a perfect 4.00 GPA.
"I am so proud of how our team adapted to online learning this semester," said head coach Kalie Mader. "This honor is just a small representation of how impressive this group of humans are."
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