Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami’s volleyball team earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2017-2018 season.
 
The award, which was initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom 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. Miami was one of 163 Division I programs to be honored with the award, setting a new all-time high for the Coaches Association.  
 
Miami was also one of seven ACC programs with three or more student-athletes named to the 2017 All-ACC Academic team after Olga Strantzali, Haley Templeton and Hannah Sorenson earned three of the 37 spots. Strantzali was also named the 2017 ACC Volleyball Scholar Athlete of the Year. 
 
2017-18 Breakdown by Classification
NCAA Division I: Women 163
NCAA Division II: Women 128
NCAA Division III: Women 173
NAIA Women: 49
Two-Year College: 26
USCAA: 1
Collegiate Men: 24
High School Girls: 358 (4 sand)
High School Boys: 28
College Beach: 23
 
List of Recipients