Article: Top-grade players; Garden Spot's girls' volleyball team has won its 10th consecutive national team academic award.

Every once in a while you just have to stop, tip your cap and give credit where credit is due.

Today, I doff my hat to Garden Spot's girls' volleyball team.

No, no. The Spartans didn't win any championships last fall. But they did qualify for the Lancaster-Lebanon League playoffs and for the District 3 Triple-A playoffs for the third year in a row - which is a very nice accomplishment in itself.

And yet the 14 members of the team did something even better:

They won the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award for the ninth straight year.

To make that distinguished team, the combined grade-point average of everyone on the roster must be at least 3.30.

Garden Spot's team GPA ...

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