LEXINGTON, Ky. – The United States Marines Corps (USMC) and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced on Monday that the Western Michigan volleyball team earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for academic excellence.
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.
WMU registered a 3.57 cumulative team GPA during the 2019-20 academic year and was one of 227 NCAA Division I schools to earn the academic honor.