Volleyball Earns 17th Straight AVCA Team Academic Award
7/24/2017 1:43:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
Lexington, Ky. - For the 17th straight year the Toledo volleyball program earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2016-17 school year.
"It's incredible to receive this award for the 17th year in a row and it really demonstrates the culture that we have built here at UT that really values academics," said head coach Greg Smith. "Our team has shown excellent work ethic in order to achieve great success both on the court and in the classroom."
Toledo coupled with Bowling Green and Indiana State are the only programs in NCAA Division I to have streaks of at least 15 years earning the academic honor. UT and BGSU are tied for the second longest active streak at 17 while Indiana State has received the honor 19 years in a row. Within the conference, eight teams in total earned the academic honor.
During the fall of 2016, the team achieved a combined 3.556 GPA which ranked as the third highest GPA in the entire athletic department. UT topped all teams in the Mid-American Conference with 10 student-athletes earning Academic All-MAC honors.
Overall the AVCA announced that a record-breaking 822 teams earned the academic honor in 2016-17, breaking the previous total of 764 set in 2015-16.
Toledo will host Oakland University in an exhibition match inside Savage Arena on Friday, August 18 before beginning the 2017-18 season on the road at the Fort Wayne Invitational on Friday, August 25 against SIU-Edwardsville.
About the AVCA
The AVCA Team Academic Award, celebrating its 25th year, is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honors. 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.
Since 2000-01 season, the number of recipients have increased every single year but two, while amassing a 532 team increase over the span of the last decade. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 822.
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"It's incredible to receive this award for the 17th year in a row and it really demonstrates the culture that we have built here at UT that really values academics," said head coach Greg Smith. "Our team has shown excellent work ethic in order to achieve great success both on the court and in the classroom."
Toledo coupled with Bowling Green and Indiana State are the only programs in NCAA Division I to have streaks of at least 15 years earning the academic honor. UT and BGSU are tied for the second longest active streak at 17 while Indiana State has received the honor 19 years in a row. Within the conference, eight teams in total earned the academic honor.
During the fall of 2016, the team achieved a combined 3.556 GPA which ranked as the third highest GPA in the entire athletic department. UT topped all teams in the Mid-American Conference with 10 student-athletes earning Academic All-MAC honors.
Overall the AVCA announced that a record-breaking 822 teams earned the academic honor in 2016-17, breaking the previous total of 764 set in 2015-16.
Toledo will host Oakland University in an exhibition match inside Savage Arena on Friday, August 18 before beginning the 2017-18 season on the road at the Fort Wayne Invitational on Friday, August 25 against SIU-Edwardsville.
About the AVCA
The AVCA Team Academic Award, celebrating its 25th year, is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honors. 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.
Since 2000-01 season, the number of recipients have increased every single year but two, while amassing a 532 team increase over the span of the last decade. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 822.
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