Volleyball Honored by AVCA for Academic Performance

PHILADELPHIA -- The Temple volleyball team was honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) for earning the Team Academic Award for the 2016-17 season. The award honors excellence in the classroom by recognizing teams that maintain at least a 3.3 cumulative GPA.

The Owls excelled both in the classroom and on the court last season, recording a team GPA of 3.58, the highest among all Temple teams. The cherry and white also combined for a 22-8 overall record, finishing third in the American Athletic Conference, defeating every league opponent at least once during the season.

The AVCA Team Academic Award, celebrating its 25th year, is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honored. Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients have increased every single year but two, while amassing a 532 team increase over the span of the last decade. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 822. The 822 honorees this year breaks the previous year's total of 764 to set an all-time high.

Temple Volleyball opens the 2017 season at the Maryland Invitational, August 25 and 26.

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Volleyball Honored by AVCA for Academic Performance

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