LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Wellesley College volleyball has earned the 2025 American Volleyball Coaches Association (USMC/AVCA) Team Academic Award sponsored by INTENT, recognizing the team for the 2024-25 academic year.

2025 marks the sixth consecutive year that Coach Dorothy Webb's squad has received the accolade. The team registered a 3.70 year-long GPA.

In addition, the squad earned the distinction of Team Academic Honor Roll for being in the top 20% of GPAs in Division III. 

Volleyball programs from across the country continue to prove their dominance off the court as a record-breaking 1,450 collegiate and high school volleyball teams maintained a year-long grade-point average of at least 3.3 on a 4.0 scale (or 4.1 on a 5.0 scale), to earn the 2025 AVCA Team Academic Award.

The AVCA, an educationally based nonprofit headquartered in Lexington, KY, is the largest and most diverse volleyball coaches' association in the world. With a broad mandate to develop the sport, the AVCA provides leadership, recognition, advocacy, and professional development opportunities to over 8,000 volleyball coaches. Members include college, high school, club, and youth coaches, and well as a wide variety of product and service providers.