Southern Illinoise University Athletics
Volleyball earns AVCA academic award for 2005-06 season
08/02/2006 | 12:00:00 | Women's Volleyball
Aug. 2, 2006
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CARBONDALE, Ill. - The Southern Illinois volleyball team was awarded the American Volleyball Coaches Association GamePlan/Team Academic Award for the 2005-06 school year.
The 13-member SIU team carried a 3.34 team GPA.
The Salukis were one of eight Missouri Valley Conference schools and one of 54 Division I women's programs to receive the honor.
According to the AVCA website, the award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors college and high school teams that displayed excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale and a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale during the school year. Nominating head coaches must be AVCA members. Each school will receive a plaque, and each player a certificate commemorating the designation.
Recipients of the award range from NCAA Division I institutions to high school girls' and boys' teams. The college ranks produced 155 programs that met the requirements for the award in 2005-2006.
