LEXINGTON, KY - The Johns Hopkins volleyball team earned the the USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award it was announced this week. The Blue Jays were one of more than 1,200 collegiate and high school volleyball teams to earn the award. The award, initiated in the 1992–93 academic year, honors volleyball teams that maintain a year-long grade-point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale or 4.1 on a 5.0 scale.
 
Johns Hopkins was one of 212 Division III schools to garner this year's team honor with a 3.45 GPA for the 2021-22 academic year. Hopkins has earned the honor in each of the last nine seasons and 10 of the last 11.

The Blue Jays took home their fifth straight Centennial Conference Championship in 2021 and advanced to the NCAA Regional Championship before falling to Tufts. Hopkins finished the year with a 31-1 record, including an NCAA-record 66-match win streak. The Blue Jays will open the 2022 season on Friday, September 2 when they host the Stevens Ducks in the Greg "Gio" Govanazzi Memorial Tournament in Goldfarb Gym.