Sports
Casper College volleyball team recognized for academic excellence
By Lisa S. Icenogle
CASPER, Wyo. — The 2024-2025 Casper College Lady Thunderbirds Volleyball team was honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association recently as a recipient of the AVCA Team Academic Award sponsored by INTENT.
The award honors volleyball teams that maintain a yearlong GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale or 4.1 on a 5.0 scale.
“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. “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.”
The Lady T-Birds were just one of 11 teams from the National Junior College Association Division I level to receive this recognition.
The NJCAA teams winning the AVCA Team Academic Award are: Casper College, Colby Community College, College of Southern Idaho, Daytona State College, Eastern Wyoming College, Florida Southwestern State College, Laramie County Community College, New Mexico Military Institute, Salt Lake Community College, Trinity Valley Community College, and Yavapai College.
The Birds will compete in a scrimmage game against the Northeastern Junior College Lady Knights on Saturday, Aug. 16, at noon in Sterling, Colorado. The 2025-26 season will open as the team competes in the North Platte Community College Tournament. The T-Birds will play against the McCook Community College Lady Indians at 2 p.m. and then go against NPCC at 6 p.m.