LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Indiana State volleyball team has earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the nineteenth-consecutive season, the AVCA announced Monday. Indiana State holds the longest streak amongst any collegiate member (at Division I, II and III levels) in the AVCA with its 19
th straight award.
The Sycamores are one of 145 out of 334 Division I women's programs to earn the 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, celebrating its 25th year, 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 two, while amassing a 532 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 822.
Eight Missouri Valley Conference volleyball teams were honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association as recipients of the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2016-17 season, part of a record-breaking 822 programs to earn this distinction.
Indiana State posted a 10-20 overall record during the 2016 season. The team's 2017 campaign begins Aug. 25-26 at the Indiana Invitational, hosted by Indiana, in Bloomington. It will mark the beginning of an era as
Lindsay Allman begins her tenure at the helm of the Sycamore Volleyball program.
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