Orange Earns Fifth-Straight AVCA Award
7/27/2010 8:11:34 AM | Volleyball
The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) has announced that Syracuse University has earned its fifth-straight AVCA Team Academic Award. 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 GPA.
Syracuse was one of 94 NCAA Division I women's teams and one of four BIG EAST teams honored by the AVCA. It is the seventh AVCA Team Academic Award for the Orange in head coach Jing Pu's 15-year tenure.
The award contributes to SU volleyball's strong tradition of success in the classroom. Earlier this month, Syracuse earned its third-straight BIG EAST Team Academic Excellence Award for having the highest GPA among conference teams.
Individually, numerous student-athletes are named to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team each school year, amounting to 148 all-time selections through 2008-09. Rising seniors Sarah Hayes, Mindy Stanislovaitis and Hayley Todd have all earned BIG EAST All-Academic honors in each year of their collegiate careers to date. The Orange has also had 22 student-athletes garner ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District honors, with graduated seniors Kacie MacTavish and Sarah Morton being the most recent selections in 2009.
Read the complete AVCA Team Academic Award release and view the full list of recipients here.
