Volleyball 7/25/2016 12:39:00 PM Chris Myers

National Champion WJU Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Excellence on and off the court. The 2015 NCAA Division II National Champion Wheeling Jesuit volleyball team earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2015-16 season.

The Cardinals are part of a new AVCA record 762 teams earning the distinction, five more than last year's then-record 757 all-time high.

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 WJU championship team registered a 3.44 team for the 2016 spring semester. The Cardinals had 17 team members with a 3.0-plus GPA and put 13 member on the WJU Dean's List.

The AVCA Team Academic Award is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honored. Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients have increased every single year but two, while amassing a 475 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 762.

2015-16 BREAKDOWN BY CLASSIFICATION

Division    Number of recipients
NCAA Division I Women 131
NCAA Division II Women       119
NCAA Division III Women 140
NAIA Women 54
Two-Year College 16
NCCAA 3
Collegiate Men 11
High School Girls 260 (1 sand)
High School Boys 22
College Beach 6

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