Volleyball Claims Second Straight Team Academic Excellence Award

 
ORLANDO – The UCF volleyball team added to its historic 2019-20 campaign on Wednesday as the program captured the American Athletic Conference Team Academic Excellence Award.

It is the third time in UCF's seven years in the AAC that the Knights' volleyball program won a Team Academic Excellence Award. The Knights also won the award in 2016-17 and last year during the 2018-19 season.

The award selections are made by the conference's faculty athletics representatives. The winning teams were chosen based on the 2019-20 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution's roster at the end of the academic year, weighing each student's GPA by credit-hour completed.

In addition to getting it done in the classroom, the Knights posted one of their best seasons ever on the floor as UCF made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003, posting a 25-8 record and securing its second straight conference title along the way.

"This program takes our academics just as seriously, if not more, than our on-court success," said head coach Todd Dagenais. "This particular team takes so much pride in representing the athletic department well when they are on the academic side of campus.  We are very proud of them and their ability to win this award during one of the greatest seasons in school history."

In July, UCF placed a record 302 student-athletes on the American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team, which included 12 members from volleyball. In May, UCF student-athletes extended their record-setting streak in the classroom to 25 consecutive semesters with a department grade-point average of 3.0 or better.

In addition to volleyball's three Team Academic Excellence Awards, UCF has collected the award in football and women's basketball in 2013-14, football, men's basketball and softball in 2014-15, men's golf and women's tennis in 2015-16, men's tennis in 2017-18, and rowing in 2018-19 and 2019-20.

Following the postponement of fall competition, the Knights are currently practicing and look to play competitively in the spring of 2021.
 
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