MSU-N spikers honored

The start of the 2015 Montana State University-Northern volleyball season is just days away. But the Skylights were recently honored for what they did off the court a season ago.

The 2014-15 Northern volleyball team received the American Volleyball Coaches Association Academic Excellence Award.

The award, which was initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale.

Northern was one of 752 volleyball teams in both college and high school to earn the award for last season.

Head coach Bill Huebsch's squad starts practice later this week for the upcoming season