University of North Texas Athletics
Volleyball Earns Eighth-Straight AVCA Team Academic Award
7/24/2018 3:18:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
Mean Green Finished With Department-Best 3.56 Team GPA
DENTON - For the eighth-straight year, the North Texas volleyball program received an American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award. The Mean Green were one of a record 975 teams to receive the honor.
The AVCA presents the award to collegiate and high school programs that maintain at least a 3.30 team grade-point average on a scale of 4.0 or 4.1 on a scale of 5.0. The 2017-18 squad combined for a 3.56 grade-point average, the highest among all sports at North Texas.
"The culture of academic success is an essential aspect of our program," head coach Andrew Palileo said. "We have earned this award the past eight years because the expectations have been passed down from class to class."
Each of the six Mean Green teams under coach Palileo have been named to the AVCA list, and four athletes on the 2017-18 roster received Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medals for maintaining a GPA of 3.75 or higher.
North Texas placed two student-athletes on the 2017 InTouch Credit Union C-USA Volleyball All-Academic Team in senior middle blocker Holly Milam and junior setter Karley York. Milam graduated with a 3.50 GPA in kinesiology, and York has maintained a 3.83 GPA in integrative studies with a 4.0 GPA in her last six semesters.
The Mean Green were one of nine Conference USA schools on the list as Charlotte, Florida International, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, Rice, UTEP, UT San Antonio and Western Kentucky also earned the AVCA Team Academic Award.
In the Academic Progress Rates (APR) that were released in April, volleyball collected a score of 979. The squad tallied a score of 990 in the multiyear year report.
Click here to view the full list of AVCA Academic Team honorees.
