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WJU, WLU Have Teams Honored

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Excellence on and off the court. The 2015 NCAA Division II National Champion Wheeling Jesuit volleyball team earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2015-16 season.

The Cardinals are part of an AVCA-record 762 teams earning the distinction, five more than last year’s then-record 757 all-time high.

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 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale.

The WJU championship team registered a 3.44 team for the 2016 spring semester. The Cardinals had 17 team members with a 3.0-plus GPA and put 13 member on the WJU Dean’s List.

The AVCA Team Academic Award is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honored. Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients have increased every single year but two, while amassing a 475 team increase over the span of the last decade. Since the award’s inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to 762.

WLU Tennis Team

Honored

SKILLMAN, N.J. — West Liberty University’s women’s tennis team has been honored as an NCAA Division II All-Academic Team for the fifth consecutive year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).

Coach Heather Gallagher’s Hilltoppers were one of four Mountain East Conference programs to earn the national honor, joining Fairmont State, W.Va, State and W.Va, Wesleyan.

The ITA presents its All-Academic Team Awards to programs that maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or better throughout the academic year. The GPAs of all eligible student-athletes who competed in at least one varsity match during the 2015-16 season must be included in the calculations.

In addition to helping West Liberty earn national recognition as a team, six Lady Hilltoppers received individual laurels as ITA Scholar-Athletes.

Emily Dawson, a senior from East Liverpool who played her high school tennis at Beaver Local, was one of only a handful of women’s tennis standouts across the division to be honored for the fourth consecutive year.

Juniors Andrea Puga and Raquel Cabero picked up their third straight national academic honor while sophomores Kate Pinchuk and Lisa Nachtwey are now two-time honorees. Freshman Ana Berbel rounded out WLU’s lengthy honor roll in her first year of eligibility.

To qualify as an ITA Scholar-Athlete, players must earn a varsity letter while compiling a GPA of 3.50 or higher for the entire 2015-16 academic year. They must also have been enrolled at their school for at least two semesters.

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