Ithaca Women’s Volleyball Honored for Academic Excellence by AVCA
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Ithaca College women's volleyball team was one of 533 programs to earn the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2011 season, as announced July 20 by the AVCA. A total of 90 NCAA Division III women's volleyball teams were accorded with 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.
Ithaca’s women's volleyball team boasts a cumulative grade-point average of 3.502, including a spring semester GPA of 3.586. The Bombers were the only team in the Empire 8 Conference to make the list.
The Bombers open up their 2012 season on Friday, Sept. 7, as they host the Bomber Invitational. Their first match of the day will be at 3:00 p.m. against Cazenovia.
2011-12 AVCA Team Academic Award Recipients