Salve Regina women's volleyball part of record-breaking AVCA academic honorees

NEWPORT, R.I. - Salve Regina University women's volleyball head coach Lauren Parsons has announced her team earned recognition from the American Volleyball Coaches Association with the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2017-2018 season. 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.

"I'm extremely proud of the team for working so hard in the classroom," says Parsons. "To be recognized for their dedication to their academics is a great honor and this will always be a goal for the volleyball program."

The AVCA Team Academic Award is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honored. Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients has increased every single year but two, while amassing a 619-team increase over the span of the last decade. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 973. This number breaks the previous year's total of 835 to set an all-time high.