The 2016-17 Kalamazoo College volleyball team once again earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award.

The award, which was 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.

Kalamazoo compiled a 3.456 cumulative team GPA.

The Hornets also earned the MIAA Team GPA Award last week.

The 2017 volleyball season is scheduled to begin Sept. 1 at Bluffton (Ohio).