The Wayne State College volleyball team has received the 2025 AVCA Team Academic Award announced Monday morning by the American Volleyball Coaches Association office in Lexington, Kentucky.  The Wildcat program continues the longest active streak of consecutive years earning the award at 23 straight years thanks to a cumulative grade point average of 3.65 during the 2024-25 academic year.
            To be eligible for the award, a school must maintain a year-long grade point average of at least 3.3 on a 4.0 scale.  This year there were 1,450 collegiate and high school teams that earned the honor.
            Senior middle hitter Taya Beller was one of nine Wildcats to receive NSIC All-Academic honors this season while becoming the first-ever female athlete at WSC to earn Academic All-American honors three times as the Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family graduate received College Sports Communicators Academic All-American Second Team honors to close out her stellar career in a Wildcat uniform. 
            Wayne State ended the 2024 season with a record of 23-7 overall and third place in the NSIC with a 14-4 league mark.  The Wildcats were ranked 19^th in the AVCA/TARAFLEX Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll.