ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
The University of Pittsburgh women’s volleyball team earned recognition for its hard work in the classroom, as the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced the Panthers as one of the AVCA Team Academic Award recipients in July, 2009. The Team Academic Award honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams who displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team gradepoint average on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale. This past spring, the women’s volleyball team also garnered the athletic department’s Top Women’s Team Award and the Overall Top GPA Award for the third consecutive year. Led by four studentathletes who earned a 4.0 GPA, 13 members of the squad boasted a GPA higher than 3.0. Additionally, recent graduate Kelly Campbell and senior Meagan Dooley were named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District second team, during the 2008-09 season.
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