Vernon boys' volleyball wins academic award

Vernon — The Vernon Township High School boys’ volleyball team, coached by Jeff DeYoung, recently received the American Volleyball Coaches Association Academic Award for the 2015-16 season, one of only 22 high schools in the nation to be recognized.
The award, which recognized 740 college teams this year, is given annually to college and high school volleyball teams that maintain a 3.3 cumulative team GPA or above, or 82 or higher on the high school scales. Vernon’s volleyball team last year maintained a GPA of 88.73. Every player who saw varsity time had to be included.
The 12 members of the squad who earned this distinguished award are: Ryan Eilinger, Ethan Kolonoski, Andrew Lisa, Eamon Logue, Steven Lohwin, Andrew Nangle, Chris Ploch, Tim Ploch, Anibal Rodriguez, Parker Shade, Marcel Thomsen, and Stephan Thomsen.