2019-20 AVCA Team GPA Award Winners
LEXINGTON, Ky. – For a fifth consecutive season, the Slippery Rock University women's volleyball team was selected as a recipient of the United State Marine Corps (USMC) / American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award based on the squad's outstanding cumulative GPA during the 2019-20 academic year.
The award, which was initiated in 1992-93, 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.
Slippery Rock ranks fifth in the Atlantic Region and 39th in Division II overall, out of 263 schools, in all-time USMC/AVCA Team Academic Awards with 10.
Slippery Rock concluded 2019-20 with a team GPA of 3.433. 15 SRU volleyball student-athletes maintained a GPA of at least 3.25 last year including
Danielle Bywalski,
Cacey Cook,
Lauren Crytzer,
Kaley Fucci,
Stephanie Jacobsen,
Erinn Kahoe,
Abigail Koeller,
Abigail Nigon,
Stephanie O'Donnell,
Shannon Ream,
Zoe Rivet,
Sophie Varndell,
Lauren Weber,
Logan Whitaker and
Jalyn Willard. Koeller recorded a perfect 4.0 GPA.
Of the 43 teams competing in the Atlantic Region, which is comprised of schools from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, Mountain East Conference and the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Slippery Rock's five-year streak of earning USMC/AVCA Team Academic honors ranks seventh behind only Seton Hill (10), West Chester (10), Mercyhurst (8), Wheeling (8), Gannon (7) and West Liberty (6).
SRU was one of 12 teams from the PSAC to earn the honor from the AVCA this season. Other PSAC teams receiving the team academic award in addition to The Rock were Bloomsburg, California (Pa.), Clarion, Edinboro, Gannon, Mercyhurst, Millersville, Seton Hill, Shepherd, Shippensburg and West Chester.
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