The Central Community College volleyball team has earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2015-16 season. CCC-Columbus is one of only 16 two-year colleges nationwide and the only two-year institution in Nebraska to earn the AVCA Team Academic Award. Overall, 764 collegiate and high school volleyball teams earned the AVCA Team Academic Award, which sets an all-time high.

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.

"We are really proud of both the academic and athletic standards we have set in the volleyball program," said CCC Volleyball head coach Mary Young. "We believe that it is our duty and obligation to build a tremendous academic foundation for our athletes that will prepare them for the challenges of life. At some point, the competitive volleyball skills our athletes possess will diminish, but the formal education will sustain them for life."

The AVCA Team Academic Award is the single largest award offered by a quantity of schools, players and coaches honored. Since the 2000-01 season, the number of recipients has increased every single year but two, while amassing a 477-team increase over the span of the last decade. Since the award's inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 764.

Over 1,000 different schools have earned the award in the program's 24-year history, with exactly 7,642 awards being given out in total.