December 09, 2009

Volleyball Earns Third Straight GLVC SAAC Sportsmanship Award

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – For the third straight year, the University of Missouri-St. Louis volleyball team has been named as a recipient of Great Lakes Valley Conference Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Sportsmanship Award for the fall season.

The Tritons volleyball squad, along with the Bellarmine University’s men’s and women’s cross country teams, the Saint Joseph’s College men’s soccer team and the University of Illinois-Springfield women’s soccer team were honored by their peers as best displaying ‘Good Sportsmanship’ during the 2009 season.

Under the direction of second-year head coach Trent Jones, UMSL posted a 21-11 overall record and finished third in the GLVC standings at 11-3. The Tritons volleyball team is the only program to have earned the peer award in the sport.

A team award will be presented to each of the six squads claiming the team sportsmanship awards. An overall ‘Good Sportsmanship’ award will be presented to the institution with the most points the 2009-10 academic year. Northern Kentucky claimed the inaugural award in 2007-08 and Wisconsin-Parkside earned the overall award in 2008-09.

The SAAC Sportsmanship Award is determined by votes of the 15 GLVC member institutions’ campus SAACs. The committees select their top three choices in each sport and base their decision on their view of sportsmanship. Each team that received a first-choice vote received 3 points, second-choice received 2 points and the third-choice received 1 point. The GLVC sponsors the award in each of the league’s 17 championship sports.