FOUR TEAMS FROM AMCC RECOGNIZED WITH AVCA TEAM ACADEMIC AWARD

Four teams from the AMCC men's and women's volleyball teams have earned the United States Marine Corps and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2019-2020 season. Teams from the women's side include Mount Aloysius College, Penn State Behrend, and Pitt-Bradford, while Penn State Behrend also picked up the honor on the men's side.

The Mountie women claimed the women's volleyball team peak performer award this past year with a 3.581 GPA. The Behrend women received the honor for the fifth time in program history with a 3.494 GPA, while the men garnered the accolades for the first time with a 3.180. The Pitt-Bradford women also earned a spot on the honor roll with a 3.425 team GPA.

The award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors volleyball teams that maintain a year-long grade-point average of 3.30 on a 4.0 scale or 4.10 on a 5.0 scale. The women were among 231 Division III teams and the men were included with 37 other schools, double the number for collegiate men from the previous year.