Volleyball | 7/23/2019 9:22:00 AM
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Minnesota State University Moorhead volleyball team has earned the Team Academic Award for the 2018-19 season, it was announced on Monday. A record 1,126 college teams earned the AVCA academic honor.
It is the seventh time MSUM has earned the honor. The Dragons have earned the honor in six of the past seven years.
MSUM athletes who are returning in 2019 that earned a 3.30 or higher for the 2018-19 year were
Elise Bakke,
Kaylyn Jenkins,
Lauren Kiewiet,
Amber Klug,
Becca Koehn,
Katelyn Selensky,
Taylor Thorson and
Addie Colligan. Senior
Monica Vega, who graduated in May, earned a GPA of 3.75 for the year.
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 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. Over 1,000 different schools have earned the award in the program's 25-year history, with exactly 9,586 awards been given out in total.
