July 23, 2019
For immediate release

WAVERLY, Iowa — The Wartburg College volleyball team earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award for the 2018-19 season.

This is the fifth straight year and 13th time overall the team has earned this honor.

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 GPA on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale.

The AVCA Team Academic Award is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honored. Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients has increased every single year but two, while more than doubling the total over the last eight academic years. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 1,125.

Girls high school led the way with 444 recipients, an increase of 86 over last year. NCAA Division I leaped ahead of NCAA Division III to bring in the second-most recipients, adding 25 programs from a year ago for a total of 189. NCAA III is third with 175, while NCAA Division II is next with 141.

Click here for a full list of recipients.