28 Central/Midwest teams earn AVCA Team Academic Awards

Spanning high school through NCAA Division I, a record 622 teams earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award for 2012-13, the  AVCA announced today. Ninety-three NCAA Division III women’s volleyball teams received the award this season by maintaining at least a 3.3 grade point average on a 4-point scale or a 4.1 GPA on a 5-point scale.

Of those 93 D-III women’s teams, these 28 hail from the Central or Midwest regions: CCIW: North Central (Ill.). IIAC: Central; Coe; Dubuque; Simpson; Wartburg. MIAC: Bethel; Carleton; Macalester; Saint Benedict; Saint Mary’s; St. Catherine. MWC: Beloit; Cornell; Monmouth. NACC: Dominican; Edgewood. SLIAC: Greenville, MacMurray; Webster. UAA: Washington-St. Louis. UMAC: Martin Luther; Minnesota Morris; Northwestern. WIAC: Wisconsin-Eau Claire; Wisconsin-Platteville. Independent: Maranatha; Nebraska Wesleyan.

AVCA releaseAll 622 of this year’s recipients

-Ricky Nelson