For the second consecutive year, the Seattle University volleyball team has earned the GamePlan/AVCA Team Academic Award, one of a record 353 teams to receive the honor from the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA).
The award honors collegiate and high school teams that displayed excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade point average on a 4.0 scale and a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale during the school year. Each school will receive a plaque, and each player a certificate commemorating the designation.
Seattle University was one of 39 Division II schools honored, the highest total for the division in the 16-year history of the program. With a cumulative grade point average of 3.519, Seattle University joins fellow GNAC members Seattle Pacific and Alaska-Fairbanks as award winners.
“I am very proud of my team for once again earning this honor,” head coach Shannon Ellis said. “They have worked very hard in their studies to be able to compile such a high grade point average.”
The mission of the athletics department is to champion the holistic development of student-athletes inspiring a vital and engaged campus community through the development and maintenance of a premier, nationally prominent NCAA Division I athletics program, in the spirit of the Jesuit tradition. The university is presently in Year One of the reclassification process to become a Division I member of the NCAA.