The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) named seven Lady Pirate Volleyball players to the fourth annual AVCA Best and Brightest Awards for Girls High School Senior student-athletes.
The AVCA Best & Brightest Award is an award meant to honor individual high school Senior student-athletes who excel on and off the court. To be eligible for the Best and Brightest Award, Senior student-athletes must have earned at least a 3.5 Unweighted/4.0 Weighted GPA (or the equivalent, if using a different GPA scale) during their junior year AND play in 50% of their varsity team’s sets during their senior season. Nominations for the award were completed last week.
Some additional tiers of recognition apply:
AVCA Best and Brightest First Team: 3.8 Unweighted GPA/4.3 Weighted GPA or above
AVCA Best and Brightest Second Team: 3.65 Unweighted GPA/4.15 Weighted GPA or above
AVCA Best and Brightest Third Team: 3.5 Unweighted GPA/4.0 Weighted GPA or above
The Lady Pirates honored were:
1st Team – Sienna Watts
1st Team – Lily McCall
1st Team – Blakely Bleeker
1st Team – Audrey Greinert
1st Team – Addi Cowling
1st Team – Allyson McCabe
3rd Team – Megan James
View the list of award winners: https://www.avca.org/award/2024-avca-girls-best-and-brightest-award/