Tigers Earn USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award

LEXINGTON, KY (July 18, 2022) — The United States Marine Corps and the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced today that more than 1,200 collegiate and high school volleyball teams have earned the USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award this season. The award, initiated in the 1992–93 academic year, honors volleyball teams that maintain a year-long grade-point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale or 4.1 on a 5.0 scale.

"Academic achievement does not happen by accident," said AVCA Executive Director Kathy DeBoer. "I'm so proud of the hundreds of coaching staffs that make excellence in the classroom a priority."

The girls teams at Jonesboro High School (Jonesboro, Arkansas) and Ross S. Sterling High School (Baytown, Texas) head the list of 2021–22 honorees in this anniversary year. They are the only two schools to earn the award in each of the 30 years of the USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award's existence.

Two colleges, Stanford University (Division I) and Stevenson University (Division III), hit the trifecta, as their women's, men's, and beach teams all are being honored. Girls high school again has the most winners by category, with 425 teams making the grade. Women's collegiate beach set a record with 54 teams receiving the honor this season.

This is the sixth consecutive year the Tigers have earned this honor and 19th time in program history.