Badger Volleyball
It's Go Time!
Badger Volleyball
It's Go Time!
Congratulations to last years squad (2008
team) for earning the:
American Volleyball Coaches Association's Academic Award!
This is the second year in a row
that Bennington Volleyball has been awarded the honor. To be eligible,
the team must maintain a 3.3 grade point average as a varsity. Our GPA
for last season was 3.74. I believe we are only one of three Nebraska
High Schools to receive the award!
Fantastic job ladies on and off
the court!!!!
Varsity Team Members include:
Kelsey Hansen, Katie Pearson;
Kayla Book; Erin Backhuus; Brooke Dutton; Mackenzie Reynoso; Bailey Schlotfeld;
Allison Siekman; Ashley Pearson; Kristin Pokorny; Erynn Westfall and Courtney
Reiman.
Coach Romans
State Records:
Kills in a season-Team
Set assists in a season-Team
Kills in a match-Team
Set assists in a match-Team
AVCA Recognizes Teams for Academic Excellence LEXINGTON, Ky. (7/29/08) – The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today that a record 353 teams earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2007-2008 season. The number smashes the previous high mark of 308 schools set a year ago.
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 team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale. "This result is just phenomenal!" said AVCA Executive Director Kathy DeBoer. "Look at this in context: We have coaches representing about 3,000 different academic institutions. Of that total, 353, or nearly 12%, coach teams with a grade point average of 3.3 or better! How can you not be proud of that?" NCAA Division I broke its own record for number of collegiate schools at any division receiving the award, as 70 of those institutions were honored this year, surpassing the mark of 56 set a year ago. NCAA Division III also surpassed the previous collegiate record, as well as its own division-high, as 62 of those schools attained the mark. In total, 212 collegiate programs met the requirements for the award in 2007-08. In addition to the NCAA Division I & Division III recipients, a total of 39 NCAA Division II schools bested its previous high mark of 31. The NAIA had 22 of its member schools achieve the honor this year, its third-highest total in the award’s history. Fifteen (15) schools in the two-year college category attained the mark, the highest ever in that division, while the NCCAA produced two recipients.
The NCAA men’s programs produced multiple recipients of the award for only the second time, as three institutions earned the award for the second consecutive year. A total of 141 high school boys’ and girls’ programs – 13 boys’ teams and 128 girls’ teams – earned the award in 2007-08. Over 900 different schools have earned the award in the program’s 16-year history, and over 2,800 awards have been given out. Only two institutions, both high schools, have earned the distinction all 16 years: Jonesboro High School (Jonesboro, Arkansas) and Ross S. Sterling High School (Baytown, Texas). BREAKDOWN BY CLASSIFICATION Division Number of recipients NCAA Division I Women 70 I would like to congratulate the members of the 2007/2008 volleyball team! Your hard work off and on the court has definitely made the entire school very proud!
Bennington Volleyball Team Wins Award!
NCAA Division II Women 39
NCAA Division III Women 62
NCAA Men 3
NAIA Women 21
NCCAA Women 2
Two-Year College Women 15
High School Girls 128
GREAT JOB!
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