Volleyball receives USMC-AVCA Team Academic Award for 14th consecutive season

Volleyball receives USMC-AVCA Team Academic Award for 14th consecutive season
July 18, 2022

By Wes Mayberry

| 2021-22 USMC-AVCA Team Academic Award Release | 2021-22 USMC-AVCA Team Academic Award Recipients |

ADA — The Ohio Northern volleyball team received the USMC-AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2021-22 season by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.

This marks the 14th consecutive year and 20th time since the program's inception in 1992 that ONU has earned the honor.

More than 1,200 collegiate and high school teams from across the country received the award, which honors teams that maintain a year-long grade point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale or 4.1 on a 5.0 scale.

A total of 212 NCAA Division III women's teams were honored this year.

The Polar Bears finished the 2021 season at 22-6 overall, including 8-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, and won OAC regular-season and tournament championships en route to earning an NCAA Tournament berth and closing the season ranked No. 20 nationally in the AVCA poll under second-year head coach Katie Kuhn.