STANFORD, Calif. - The 2015 Stanford women’s volleyball and beach volleyball teams were among the 146 Division I women's teams and six college beach teams, respectively, to be recognized by the American Volleyball Coaches Association today as a recipient of the AVCA Team Academic Award.
The award, which was initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that display 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.
The Stanford program has time and again proven its commitment to academic excellence. Over the past five years, Cardinal women's volleyball players have been recognized with Pac-12 academic awards 29 times. In 2015, six Stanford players garnered Pac-12 academic honors, including junior Jordan Burgess who was also a Capital One/CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-American.
Stanford is one of two Division I programs in the history of the AVCA team award to have attained the pinnacle of volleyball success in both earning the AVCA Team Academic Award and winning a national championship in the same academic year. The Cardinal became the first program to accomplish the feat during the 2001-02 school year.
In 2014-15, the indoor team was one of three Pac-12 school to obtain the award, joining Arizona State and Oregon State. Stanford and ASU’s sand teams also represented the conference, which will officially add beach volleyball as a Pac-12 sport in 2015-16.
