Women’s Volleyball Earns 2025 AVCA Team Academic Award

| 2025 AVCA Team Academic Award Release |

SPRINGFIELD, OH — Wittenberg’s women's volleyball team has earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award, sponsored by INTENT, for the 2024-25 academic year.

Established 33 years ago, the AVCA Team Academic Award honors teams at the high school and collegiate levels that are successful in the classroom. To be recognized, teams must have achieved a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a 4.00 scale during the entire 2024-25 academic year. A total of 1,450 collegiate and high school volleyball teams qualified to earn the 2025 AVCA Team Academic Award.

This year marks the 21st time that the Wittenberg women's volleyball program has earned this distinction since its inception in the 1992-93 academic year, joining 15 other NCAA Division III teams to be recognized 20-plus times in the history of the award. Wittenberg earned the honor eight straight years from 2004 to 2011 and six straight times from 2017 to 2022. Wittenberg is one of six North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) programs to earn the honor for 2025.

Led by Head Coach Evelyn Miller, the Tigers finished at 17-10 overall last season and were the No. 4 seed in the NCAC Tournament after securing in a three-way tie for second place with Ohio Wesleyan and DePauw with a 5-2 record. Wittenberg fell to Denison, the conference champion, in a semifinal match. It was only the second time since 1992 that Wittenberg has fallen short of the NCAC Tournament title match.

Written By: Cindy Holbrook