WKU Volleyball Earns 13th-Straight AVCA Team Academic Award

LEXINGTON, Ky. – For the 13^th-consecutive season, WKU Volleyball has been recognized as a recipient of the AVCA Team Academic Award for its work in the classroom throughout the 2018-19 school year, the association announced Monday. With a cumulative GPA of 3.46, the Lady Toppers have earned the Team Academic Award for the 17^th time since 1999.

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.

Since the 2000-01 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.

In total, 189 Division I women's teams were honored with WKU representing one of eight Conference USA programs on the list including: Charlotte, FIU, Middle Tennessee, Rice, Southern Miss, UTEP and UTSA in addition to the Red and White.

A full list of team winners can be viewed here.

With the 2019 campaign just around the corner, volleyball season tickets are available online at WKUSports.com or by calling the WKU Ticket Office at 1-800-5-BIGRED.

How to Follow the Lady Toppers: For complete information on WKU Volleyball, follow the team on Twitter at @WKUVolleyball and head coach Travis Hudson at @TravisHudsonWKU.

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