LEXINGTON, Ky. -- For the 15th time in the last 17 years, Bradley Volleyball earned the United States Marine Corps/American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award, according to an announcement by the AVCA Monday.
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.
The Braves were one of nine Missouri Valley Conference teams to earn AVCA Team Academic Award honors and Bradley is one of just 12 teams nationally to earn the distinction at least 15 times over the last 17 years, joining American, Bowling Green, Central Connecticut, Eastern Michigan, Indiana State, Marist, Memphis, Southern Illinois, Toledo, Western Kentucky and Wichita State.