Ole Miss Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award

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Ole Miss Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award

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addition to setting records on the court, the Ole Miss volleyball team also achieved success in the classroom last year.

For the third time in program history and first since 2008, the Rebels earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2016-17 season.
Ole Miss was one of 145 Division I and seven SEC schools to receive the award, given annually. The award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale.
2016-17 Rebel Volleyball Academic Highlights
• Team cumulative GPA of 3.38
• Spring GPA of 3.37 was highest in seven years
• 13 members on the SEC Academic Honor Roll
• Aubrey Edie named CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American, received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and was awarded a Taylor Medal by the University of Mississippi
• 80 percent of team earned a 3.00 GPA or higher in the spring
• Tied for the most 3.00’s in school history
“Our program has high expectations for our players academically,” head coach Steven McRoberts said. “I’m very proud of the young ladies on our team, as they have met those expectations. It is because of their hard work that they achieved such a high team GPA. I am thankful for the help of Jon Nance, our academic coordinator, and all of the Fed Ex academic staff for keeping our players on task and organized. This team set the bar high that the rest of our future teams will try to match and exceed.”
The AVCA Team Academic Award, celebrating its 25th year, is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honored. Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients have increased every single year but two, while amassing a 532 team increase over the span of the last decade. Since the award’s inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 822.
The Rebels will begin fall camp Aug. 7 and open the season Aug. 25 in the newly-renovated Gillom Center.
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Ole Miss to Host Rebel Invite Cross Country Meet Sept. 15

Ole Miss Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams competed in the NCAA Championships on November 19th, 2016 in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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Coming off the best cross country season in Ole Miss history, the Rebels are excited to host the Sept. 15 Rebel Invite for fans to see the team live and in person.

Just as last year, the meet will be held at FNC Park in Oxford, with the women’s 5K race to begin at 6:45 p.m., followed by the men’s 6K at 7:15.
More race day details will be released in the days leading up to the event. The full 2017 Ole Miss cross country schedule will be unveiled in August.
Last fall, the Ole Miss men had a breakthrough campaign, rising all the way to a fourth-place podium finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was the men’s third straight season to qualify for nationals and their best result in program history.
The women also put together a banner year, claiming their best ever finishes at the SEC meet (2nd), South Regional (2nd) and NCAA Championships (23rd).
For more information on Ole Miss Track & Field and Cross Country, follow the Rebels on Twitter (@OleMissTrack), Facebook and Instagram.
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