Volleyball and Swim Teams Win Academic Awards

Teams Recognized for Achieving Stellar Grade Point Averages

BOILING SPRINGS, N.C.—The Gardner-Webb University volleyball program has been named a 2025 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award winner and Team Honor Roll recipient for the primary time ever. In addition, each the lads’s and ladies’s swimming groups acquired educational honors from the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSAA).

Volleyball Only Big South Program to Achieve the Honor

After a stellar yr within the classroom, the volleyball group positioned inside the high 20% nationally for Grade Point Average (GPA) by division. Joining Gardner-Webb nationwide, a record-breaking 1,450 collegiate and highschool volleyball groups maintained a year-long grade-point common of not less than 3.3 on a 4.0 scale to earn the 2025 AVCA Team Academic Award.

Across NCAA Division I, the Runnin’ Bulldogs are certainly one of simply 47 packages to obtain the distinction, whereas additionally being the one Big South program to take action as effectively.

Gardner-Webb Volleyball returns to the court docket for the 2025 season in late August, starting its subsequent marketing campaign at UNC-Greensboro the weekend of Aug. 29-30.

Swimming Among 432 Institutions Recognized

The Gardner-Webb swim program is amongst 763 groups from 432 establishments to be named a CSAA Scholar All-America Team for the Spring 2025 semester. These groups, comprising 18,459 student-athletes, had been acknowledged for his or her excellent educational achievements.

To earn this prestigious honor, groups had been required to realize a (GPA) of three.00 or greater through the Spring 2025 semester.

Gardner-Webb’s 23 ladies earned a GPA of three.67, and the 20 males on the swim group earned a 3.68.

The swim groups had been additionally acknowledged with the award for the 2024 Fall Semester, and Gardner-Webb’s swim program has been persistently acknowledged for its educational achievements over the previous 15 years.

Gardner-Webb University is North Carolina’s acknowledged chief in personal, Christian greater schooling. A Carnegie-Classified Doctoral/Professional University, GWU is dwelling to 9 faculties and faculties, greater than 80 undergraduate and graduate majors, and a world-class school. Located on a stupendous 225-acre campus in Boiling Springs, N.C., Gardner-Webb prepares graduates to affect their chosen professions, equips them with the abilities to advance the frontiers of information, and evokes them to make a constructive and lasting distinction within the lives of others. Ignite your future at Gardner-Webb.edu.