Memphis Volleyball Team Garners Seventh-Straight AVCA Academic Team Award
Volleyball team posts a 3.386 cumulative GPA
LEXINGTON, Ky. — For the seventh consecutive year, the University of Memphis volleyball program was recognized as one of 94 Division I volleyball programs to earn the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2009-10 school year the volleyball association announced.
Memphis, which posted a 3.64 cumulative GPA in the fall semester and a 3.386 GPA in the spring semester, was one of a record 450 teams to earn the yearly honor. The program has now earned the Team awards every year since 2003.
C-USA All Academic picks Christine Bach and Becky Shaffer were joined by fellow senior Emily Underwood as the clubs three student-athletes to turn in perfect 4.0 GPA’s in both the fall and spring semesters. Three other Tiger volleyball players (Katlin Inglish, Casey Sines and Lauren Thompson) earned 4.0’s in one of the two semesters. The program recorded 19 Tiger 3.0 finishes and 14 Dean’s List honors last year. Of its 13 players, 12 posted cumulative GPA’s of 3.0 or better for the school year.
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.
Memphis will kick off its 2010 season on August 27, when it takes on Jacksonville State in the Belmont Invitational in Nashville, Tenn.
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