Lobo VB Earns AVCA Team Academic Honors

 The American Volleyball Coaches Association announced its Team Academic Award sponsored by INTENT for the 2024-25 academic calendar year Monday, with New Mexico earning All-Academic Team status for the sixth season in a row.

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.

UNM athletes combined for a 3.40 cumulative GPA on the four-point scale over the 2024-25 academic year to qualify. They posted a 3.79 team GPA in the spring semester — a program record for a non-COVID semester — and have finished with a 3.40 or better as a team for 12 consecutive semesters as well as a 3.0 or better for 28 in a row.

The Lobos are one of six Mountain West programs to meet the standard along with Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, UNLV and Wyoming.

“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 in the organization’s release. “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.”

For more information on the team academic award, please see the AVCA Release.