The NDSU volleyball team has been honored with the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award for the 2015-16 season, the organization announced July 25.



The Bison received the award for the fourth consecutive year and for the 16th time overall.

The award was initiated during the 1992-93 academic year to honor collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale.
 
A record-high 762 programs were honored this year.

A full listing of AVCA Team Academic Award winners is available at https://www.avca.org/awards/2015-2016-avca-team-academic-award-recipients.html.

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