LITTLE ROCK – The American Volleyball Coaches Association has announced that the Little Rock volleyball team has earned the association's Team Academic Award for the 2014-15 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 Trojans recorded a GPA of 3.32 for the fall semester and 3.40 for the spring semester. At the end of the 2015 spring semester, Little Rock's student-athletes maintained 3.39 cumulative GPA over the course of their academic careers.
Little Rock is one of a record 752 teams to win the award this season, breaking last year's total of 676 teams.
The AVCA 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. Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients have increased every single year but one. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 752.
