WAYNE – For 16 consecutive seasons the Wayne State College volleyball team has been awarded the AVCA (American Volleyball Coaches Association) Team Academic Award.
The Coaches’ Association made the announcement Monday morning from their home office in Lexington, Kentucky. WSC, as a team, recorded a cumulative grade-point average of 3.85 during the 2017-18 academic school year to earn the team academic honor.
The award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, is celebrating the 26th year and honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed academic excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scaled or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale.
Wayne State College is one of 128 schools in NCAA Division II to earn the award and one of 13 schools from the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference to receive the honor. WSC is the lone program in the NCAA Division II to have received the academic honor for a minimum of 16 consecutive years (every year since 2002).
Wayne State finished the 2017 season with a record of 19-12 overall and finished eighth in the NSIC with a 12-8 league mark. The Wildcats lost to eventual national champion Concordia-St. Paul in the NSIC Tournament in five sets (18-25, 25-13, 23-25, 25-20, 15-12).
The 2018 season for Wayne State College begins on Friday and Saturday, August 24-25 in Daytona Beach, Florida in the Embry-Riddle Tournament. WSC will face Westminster (Utah) at 11 a.m. and Lynn (FL) at 5 p.m. on Friday as well as Saturday games against Valdosta State (GA) at 11 a.m. and Embry-Riddle (FL) at 7 p.m.
