Three SLIAC Volleyball Squads Receive AVCA Team Academic Award

St. Louis, Mo. – Three St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) volleyball squads have received the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2009-10 season.

Greenville College, Principia College and Webster University were three out of 75 teams in NCAA Division III to receive the award for the past academic year.

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 Team Academic Award has become one of the AVCA's fastest growing awards programs, seeing an impressive surge in teams honored over the past several years. The program has increased by over 300 percent in the last 10 years and by 79 percent in the past three years alone. Over 1,000 different schools have earned the award in the program's 18-year history, and over 2,900 awards have been given out in all.