LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Alaska Nanooks volleyball team has once again been recognized for excellence in the classroom, earning the 2025 AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2024-25 academic year. The Nanooks are one of 1,458 teams honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, marking a record-breaking total of collegiate and high school programs to receive the distinction.
The award celebrates teams that maintain a year-long GPA of 3.3 or higher on a 4.0 scale (or 4.1 on a 5.0 scale). This is the seventh consecutive year—and the 11th time in program history—that Alaska has earned the AVCA Team Academic Award. The Nanooks first received the honor in 2008.
"It is very exciting to see that the record-setting, on-court successes during the 2024–25 season have extended to the classroom," said 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."
Head coach Brian Scott echoed those sentiments, saying, "Our athletes should be very proud of all they accomplished this last year. They competed hard on the court, worked hard in practice, and more importantly, excelled in the classroom. Juggling responsibilities as a student-athlete is very difficult. For them to meet such high standards academically speaks to the high character and work ethic of this great group."
The Nanooks posted a team GPA of 3.52 this season and had eight student-athletes named to the GNAC Volleyball Academic All-Conference Team, with an additional six named GNAC FAR Scholar-Athletes.
GNAC Volleyball Academic All-Conference
GNAC FAR Scholar-Athletes
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