PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Six American Athletic Conference volleyball programs were placed on the 2016-2017 AVCA Team Academic Award list, as announced by the organization on Monday.
UCF, Cincinnati, SMU, Temple, Tulsa, and Wichita State each made the list comprised of a record-breaking 822 institutions ranging from high schools to Division I colleges. Among these schools were 145 NCAA Division I women teams, as the award reached new heights in its 25th year of existence.
Established during the 1992-1993 academic year, the award recognizes 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.
Temple was also honored for reaching its
Dig Pink fundraising goal through the Side-Out Foundation, while UCF was additionally recognized for making the AVCA Team Academic Honor Roll this year.
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NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN
Abilene Christian University
American University
Appalachian State University
Arkansas State University
Auburn University
Austin Peay State University
Ball State University
Baylor University
Belmont University
Bethune-Cookman University
Binghamton University
Boise State University
Bowling Green State University
Bradley University
Brown University
Bryant University
Campbell University
Central Connecticut State
Central Michigan University
Charleston Southern University
Clemson University
College of William & Mary
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Creighton University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
DePaul University
East Tennessee State University
Eastern Illinois University
Eastern Kentucky University
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Washington University
Elon University
Fairleigh Dickinson University - Teaneck
Fresno State University
Gardner-Webb University
George Mason University
Georgia State University
Gonzaga University
Harvard University
Hofstra University
Houston Baptist University
Idaho State University
Illinois State University
Indiana State University
Indiana-Purdue at Indianapolis
Jacksonville State University
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Kansas State University
Kent State University
La Salle University
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Liberty University
Lipscomb University
Long Island University, Brooklyn
Louisiana State University
Loyola University Chicago
Manhattan College
Marist College
Marshall University
McNeese State University
Mercer University
Miami University (OH)
Milwaukee
Missouri State University
Morehead State University
Murray State University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Nicholls State University
North Carolina State University
North Dakota State University
Northern Kentucky University
Northwestern University
Oakland University
Ohio State University
Oregon State University
Pepperdine University
Providence College
Radford University
Rice University
Rider University
Robert Morris University (PA)
Saint Francis University (PA)
Saint Louis University
Saint Mary's College (CA)
Sam Houston State University
Seton Hall University
South Dakota State University
Southeast Missouri State University
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
SMU
St. John's University
Stanford University
Stony Brook University
Temple
Tennessee Tech University
University at Albany
University of Akron
University of Alabama
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Arkansas
University of California - Santa Barbara
UCF
Cincinnati
University of Evansville
University of Illinois
University of Kentucky
University of Louisiana-Monroe
University of Louisville
University of Maryland-Eastern Shore
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
University of Mississippi
University of Missouri
University of Nebraska-Omaha
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
University of New Mexico
University of North Florida
University of North Texas
University of Northern Colorado
University of Northern Iowa
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of South Carolina
University of South Carolina Upstate
University of South Dakota
University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
University of Texas-El Paso
University of Toledo
Tulsa
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
University of Wyoming
Utah State University
Valparaiso University
Villanova University
Virginia Tech
West Virginia University
Western Carolina University
Western Kentucky University
Wichita State
Wofford College
Wright State University
Yale University
Youngstown State University