Lexington, Ky. - The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today that 975 teams have earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2017-2018 season including the Penn State Harrisburg Women's Volleyball team. This number breaks the previous year's total of 835 to set an 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.
Head Coach Angela Burkett said, "I am very proud of the hard work our student athletes allocate to being successful on the court, in the classroom and throughout the community. This is a huge achievement for the team and shows how serious we take academics at Penn State Harrisburg."