Kean Earns AVCA Academic Award

Kean Earns AVCA Academic Award

Kean University was one of 973 teams to earn Team Academic Award from the American Volleyball Coaches Association this year for the 2017-18 season.

The award, which was initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors 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. 973 teams earned the award this year, breaking the previous year's total of 835 and setting a new all-time high.

Over 1,000 different schools have earned the award in the program's 25-year history, with exactly 8,461 awards been given out in total. The Cougars won 34 games in 2018 and captured their seventh straight conference title, first as a member of the Continental Volleyball Conference.

For a full list of the AVCA Team Academic Award winners click HERE