UNI Volleyball Earns 9th AVCA Academic Award

LEXINGTON, Ky. – UNI volleyball is among eight Missouri Valley Conference teams honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association as recipients of the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2017-18 season.

This was UNI's seventh consecutive year to earn the award. The Panther squad has received it nine times overall. This year, the Panthers were part of a record-breaking 973 programs to earn this distinction.

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 amassing a 619-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 973.

MVC teams earning the AVCA Team Academic Award for 2017-18:

Bradley
Drake
Illinois State
Indiana State
Missouri State
UNI
Southern Illinois
Valparaiso

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