Volleyball Team Honored for Academic Excellence

Michigan Tech's volleyball team is as good in the classroom as they are on the court.
Michigan Tech's volleyball team is as good in the classroom as they are on the court.

The Michigan Tech volleyball team was one of 752 programs nationwide to earn the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2014-15 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.

Michigan Tech's 2014 volleyball team posted a team GPA of 3.45 for year. The squad had a 3.55 during the fall semester, and there were a combined five 4.0 performances during the two semesters from individual student-athletes.

The start of the 2015 Michigan Tech volleyball season is just over a month away. The Huskies open at the Northern Michigan Wildcat Open Sept. 4-5.

Michigan Technological University is a public research university founded in 1885 in Houghton, Michigan, and is home to more than 7,000 students from 55 countries around the world. Consistently ranked among the best universities in the country for return on investment, Michigan’s flagship technological university offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, computing, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, and the arts. The rural campus is situated just miles from Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, offering year-round opportunities for outdoor adventure.