BRISTOL, R.I. - February 20, 2009 - The New England Women’s Volleyball Association announced today it recipients of the NEWVA Academic Team Award. Fifteen teams earned the honor, attaining a team-average of at least a 3.3 GPA during the fall semester. The NEWVA Academic Team Award was established in 2008 to recognize the hard work and dedication of the teams’ student-athletes off the court and in the classroom. Twenty-five percent of all the member programs qualified for the award.
Listed below are the NEWVA Academic Team Award winners.
Bowdoin
Brandeis
Colby
Connecticut College
Elms
Emerson
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
Roger Williams
Springfield
Trinity
UMass Boston
Wesleyan
Williams
WPI
Established nearly 25 years ago, the New England Women’s Volleyball Association is open to all collegiate institutions in New England sponsoring Division III women’s volleyball. Membership has grown to 60 members in 2009, representing eight conferences.
Moira Long will enter her third season as head women's volleyball coach in the fall of 2013. Long wasted little time putting her stamp on the program, taking the Pride to the NCAA Championship Elite Eight in 2011.
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