USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award Release

USMC/AVCA Team Academic Honor Roll Listing

            For the 21^st consecutive year, the Wayne State College volleyball team received the United States Marines Corp and American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award announced Thursday afternoon by the coaches' association office in Lexington, Kentucky.  WSC has the longest active streak in NCAA Division II for the academic award and received the AVCA Team Academic Honor Roll Award for being in the top 20 percent in NCAA Division II with a cumulative grade point average of 3.80. 
            The award, initiated in 1992-93, honors volleyball teams that maintain a year-long grade point average of 3.30 on a 4.0 scale.  Wayne State was one of 14 schools from the Northern Sun Conference to earn the honor.
            Wayne State had 10 athletes earn NSIC All-Academic honors this season with two of those athletes – Jessie Brandl and Isabelle Vacek – receiving the NSIC/Myles Brand All-Academic With Distinction Award.  Brandl, Taya Beller, Kelsie Cada and Rachel Walker were named College Sports Communicators Academic All-District while Beller and Walker were both named CSC Academic All-American Third Team this season.    
            Wayne State College finished the 2022 season with a record of 30-3 and captured their first-ever NSIC regular season title with a 19-1 league mark, ending the year ranked fourth in the final AVCA Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll.  It was just the fourth 30-win season in school history.