Volleyball Earns 2025-26 AVCA Team Academic Award

Eastern Illinois volleyball program has been recognized with the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2025-26 academic year. The Panthers volleyball team has now won the award seven consecutive years and 12 times overall. To earn AVCA Team Academic Award honors, teams must maintain a year-long grade-point average of at least 3.3 on a 4.0 scale or 4.1 on a 5.0 scale. More than 1,400 collegiate and high school volleyball teams in both men's and women's competition earned the award this season. The award was first initiated in the 1992–93 academic year. EIU volleyball reports to campus in late July...