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Men’s Volleyball | 7\/26\/2026 8:50:00 AM<\/p>\n


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LORETTO, Pa. \u2013\u00a0\u00a0The Saint Francis men’s volleyball team were champions and scholars this past season.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the team received the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award. This marks the 10th straight year Coach Mike Rumbaugh<\/a>‘s team has earned the honor.<\/p>\n

First instituted in 1992, the AVCA Team Academic Award goes to collegiate and high school volleyball programs that maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.30\u00a0for the academic year.<\/p>\n

Saint Francis earned a 3.48\u00a0GPA during the 2025-2026 school year.<\/p>\n

The team captured the Northeast Conference championship in April and advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Men’s Volleyball | 7\/26\/2026 8:50:00 AM Story Links LORETTO, Pa. \u2013\u00a0\u00a0The Saint Francis men’s volleyball team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-825042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}