LEXINGTON, Ky.  - The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today that 1,126 teams have earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2018-2019 season. This number breaks the previous year's total of 977 to set an all-time high. The St. Catherine University volleyball obtained a 3.49 team GPA in the fall and improved to a team 3.67 GPA in the spring to earn the award for the 13th consecutive season. 

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 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 has increased every single year but two, while more than doubling the total over the last eight academic years. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 1,125.

Over 1,000 different schools have earned the award in the program's 25-year history, with exactly 9,586 awards been given out in total.

You can find 2018-19's list of recipients by clicking here.

You can find the Team Academic All-Time Record Book by clicking here.