Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award

The Syracuse Volleyball team earned the distinction of earning the AVCA Team Academic Award presented by INTENT for the 2024-25 year. It marks the 14th time in program history the Orange have earned the the recognition and sixth time in the last seven years. The Orange were one of 13 ACC teams to earn the award.

The Orange have excelled in the classroom under Syracuse Head Coach Bakeer Ganesharatnam, having earned AVCA Academic Team honors in two of his three seasons. Syracuse had 10 athletes on the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) All-Academic Team eclipsing the previous program record of seven from the prior season. The Orange held a 3.197 fall semester GPA and improved to a 3.620 bringing their 2024-25 academic year GPA to a 3.422. Fifteen athletes had a 3.3 cumulative grade point average over the course of the year.

The AVCA Team Academic Award is awarded to given out to collegiate and high school volleyball teams that maintained a year-long grade-point average of at least a 3.3 on a 4.0 scale. This year, 1,450 college and high school teams earned the award.

"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."

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