Volleyball | 7/22/2025 11:11:00 AM

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Coppin State's Volleyball team received the 2025 AVCA Team Academic Award, sponsored by INTENT, it was announced by the organization on Monday.

1450 collegiate and high school volleyball programs across the country proved their academic success off the court by maintaining a yearlong grade-point average of at least a 3.3 on a 4.0 scale for the cumulative 2024-2025 school year.

Coppin State maintained a 3.44 team grade-point average for the academic year.

"It is very exciting to see that the record-setting, on-court successes during the 2024-25 season have extended to the classroom," says AVCA CEO Jaime Gordon. "The fact that more programs earned the Team Academic Award than ever before is evidence of how committed our coaches are when it comes to helping their players reach their goals as both students and athletes."

Coppin opens the 2025 season on August 29-30 at the Aggie/Phoenix invitational. The Eagles will play at Elon on Friday night, before taking on Bethune-Cookman and North Carolina A&T in Greensboro on Saturday.