TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – For the 23rd-straight season, the Indiana State Volleyball program has earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award for its work in the classroom, 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 23th-straight award.
 
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 blue and white recorded a GPA of 3.65 for the last academic semester.
 
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 more than doubling the total over the last eight academic years. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 1,313.