Volleyball Earns 2025 ACVA Team Academic Award

NORTH ADAMS, Mass.—For the third year in a row and the fifth time in program history the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Volleyball team has earned the 2025 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award sponsored by INTENT.

Volleyball programs from across the country continue to prove their dominance off the court as 1,450 collegiate and high school volleyball teams maintained a year-long grade-point average of at least 3.3 on a 4.0 scale (or 4.1 on a 5.0 scale), to earn the 2025 AVCA Team Academic Award.

"It is very exciting to see that the record-setting, on-court successes during the 2024-25 season have extended to the classroom," says AVCA CEO Jaime Gordon. "The fact that more programs earned the Team Academic Award than ever before is evidence of how committed our coaches are when it comes to helping their players reach their goals as both students and athletes."

Nine MCLA Volleyball players earned a spot on the Dean's List last Fall and this past Spring, with three earning a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Earlier this year, eleven players were named to the Fall/Winter MASCAC All-Academic Team and four earned College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honors. As a team, the Trailblazers finished both semesters with impressive 3.34 grade point averages.

The MCLA Volleyball team previously received the AVCA Team Academic Award in 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024.

About the American Volleyball Coaches Association

The association's mission is to advance the sport of volleyball with AVCA coaches at the epicenter of leadership, advocacy, and professional development. The membership includes more than 10,000 collegiate, professional, high school, club, and youth volleyball coaches—primarily in the United States. The AVCA represents women's volleyball, men's volleyball, and beach volleyball coaches, and works to increase exposure and recognition for the sport of volleyball.