WASHINGTON – Georgetown University's volleyball team earned the United States Marine Corps (USMC) / American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2019-20 season, as announced by the organization on Monday. The Hoyas were one of a record 1,313 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.  

•    Georgetown has won 10 AVCA Team Academic Awards in program history, including each of the past two seasons.

•    Nine of the 10 BIG EAST programs in 2019 were recognized from the 227 total NCAA Division I 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 1,313.