LEXINGTON, Ky.— The Kent State volleyball team has earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2017-18 academic year, the organization announced on Monday (July 16). The Golden Flashes have received the honor each of the past six years and 10 times overall.
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 or a 4.