ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend women's volleyball team has earned the United State Marine Corps and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2021-22 season.
The women are receiving this honor for the fifth straight year and seventh time overall in program history. This season, the Lions posted a 22-6 overall record and won their sixth AMCC Championship, defeating Alfred State 3-0 in the title match. Behrend was named the AMCC Regular-Season Champions with an 8-0 record and had five players named to the All-AMCC squad, including Player of the Year in Kristin Reiland (Fairview, PA/Villa Maria Academy). Head coach Phil Pisano garnered his seventh Coach of the Year honors.
The award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors volleyball teams that maintain a year-long grade-point average of 3.30 on a 4.0 scale or 4.10 on a 5.0 scale.