WASHINGTON – Georgetown University's volleyball team earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2018-19 season, as announced by the organization on Monday. The Hoyas were one of a record 1,125 teams to garner the award.

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.  

All 10 BIG EAST programs were recognized from the 189 total NCAA Division schools represented, but only Georgetown and DePaul also reached their Dig Pink® fundraising goals through the Side-Out Foundation. Dig Pink® is a nationwide movement to provide meaningful and impactful experiences for athletes while inspiring and empowering them to come together in support of the stage IV breast cancer community. Each year, hundreds of teams across the country (and some overseas) participate in the Dig Pink® Rally.
 
The AVCA Team Academic Award is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honored. Since the 2000-01 season, the number of recipients has increased every single year but two, while more than doubling the total over the last eight academic years. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 1,125.

Georgetown posted a cumulative 3.347 GPA in 2018-19 with 13 student-athletes garnering at least a 3.00 GPA to earn BIG EAST All-Academic accolades. Over the course of the academic year, nine different Hoyas collected a total of 14 semester honors.

The Hoyas finished the 2018 season 17-13 overall and 10-8 in BIG EAST play to tie for fourth place in the league standings. Georgetown's 17 wins were the most since 2004 and the 10 conference wins were the most since 2001.