LITTLE ROCK – Little Rock volleyball has earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association's Team Academic Award for the 2015-16 academic year, the organization announced on Monday morning.
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The Trojans posted a grade point average of 3.35 for the fall semester and a GPA of 3.54 for the spring semester. At the end of the 2016 spring semester, the team had maintained a 3.35 cumulative GPA over the course of their academic careers.
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Little Rock is one of a record 762 teams to win the award this year, breaking last year's total of 752 teams. The Trojans were also one of 131 Division I programs to earn the honor.
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In the Sun Belt Conference, Little Rock was one of five teams to earn the award.
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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.
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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 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 762.
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Little Rock is just over a month away from its first match of the 2016 season against UTSA on Aug. 26 in Dallas.
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