Courtesy of University of Maine Athletic Media Relations
ORONO, Maine - The University of Maine volleyball team was one of just
70 NCAA Division I programs to receive the American Volleyball Coaches
Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2007-08 season. The
announcement was made on Wednesday by the association. The Black Bears
were the only America East team to earn the prestigious honor.
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 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale, or a 4.10
cumulative GPA on a 5.0 scale. Overall, 353 teams (throughout all
levels of college and high school) were given an academic award, which
set a new AVCA record.
Ten (10) Black Bear volleyball players were honored last fall
as they were named to the 2007 America East Academic Honor Roll for
earning GPAs of 3.0 or better. The list of 10 included Paige Tortorello, Amanda Armstrong, Lindsay Allman, Brittany Kiehl, Jessica Wolfenden, Jennifer Domer, Ashlee Wright, Emily Root, Katrina Fruehauf and Amy Lawson.
Seven of those members (Kiehl, Wolfenden, Domer, Wright, Root, Fruehauf
and Lawson) were named to the America East Commissioner's Academic
Honor Roll for earning a GPA of 3.5 or higher.
For more information on Maine volleyball, please visit the team's page
at www.GoBlackBears.com(.) For more information about the academic
success of Black Bear student-athletes, please visit
www.GoBlackBears.com(.) When there, click on "Athletics" in the
navigation bar. A drop down menu will appear with "Academic
Support/Success" being the first option. Click on it to view all the
tremendous academic achievement Black Bear student-athletes are earning
throughout the conference and nationally.