Converse Volleyball Wins AVCA Team Academic Award

For the second year in a row, the Converse University volleyball team has earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award. 

AVCA’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 9,500 collegiate, professional, high school, club, and youth volleyball coaches—primarily in the United States. 

More than 1,450 collegiate and high school volleyball programs were named to the prestigious list. In order to earn recognition a team must maintain a year-long grade-point average (GPA) of 3.3 or higher on a 4.0 scale. This is the fifth time the Valkyries have been named to the list since becoming an NCAA Division II program.

This is the fifth time the Valkyries have been named to the list since becoming an NCAA Division II program.

This past academic year the volleyball team swept the Academic Excellence Award for both semesters. The 2024-2025 volleyball team joins the 2018-19 golf team, 2019-20 golf team, 2020-21 women’s tennis team, and the 2022-23 women’s cross country teams as the only programs to sweep the academic award in the academic calendar.

This past spring, Tori Barr ’25 (Child and Family Studies) and Megan Carpenter ’25 (Business Administration) both recorded perfect 4.0 GPA’s in the classroom.