Volleyball Awarded AVCA Team Academic Award sponsored by INTENT
For the second straight season and fifth time in program history, Suffolk volleyball was recognized for its work inside the classroom as the Rams earned American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award sponsored by INTENT for the 2023-24 season, the national organization announced.
AVCA RELEASE
LEXINGTON, Ky. – For the second straight season and fifth time in program history, Suffolk volleyball was recognized for its work inside the classroom as the Rams earned American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award sponsored by INTENT for the 2023-24 season, the national organization announced.
AVCA Team Academic Award distinction is handed out to programs that achieve a yearlong grade point average of a 3.3 on a 4.0 scale or a 4.1 on a 5.0 scale.
Suffolk received the award, which was created and has been handed out since 1992-93, for the firth time thanks to the team's 3.521 cumulative GPA. All five of the Rams AVCA Team Academic Award accolades have come under the leadership of head coach Scott Blanchard.
A record number of volleyball programs picked up the honor in 2023-24 as more than 1,400 collegiate and high school programs reached the feat, the most in the 32 seasons in the history of the award.
The Rams were among the 231 NCAA Division III teams to excel academically, including Commonwealth Coast Conference foes Endicott, Gordon and Wentworth. For a complete breakdown of honorees, click here.
INTENT, which is in its first year of sponsoring the prestigious award, is a game-changing, digital platform links student-athletes (along with military special ops veterans) to a powerful network of candidate-seeking employers. The tech, information and internet company guides student-athletes and service members toward professional and personal success in life after sports and service.