https://www.avca.org/award/2023-avca-girls-best-and-brightest-award/


B&B Award Team	First	Last	School	State	Ht.	Pos.	Commitment
1st Team	Makenna	Hurst	Lexington Christian Academy	KY	5’7″	S

Lexington, KY (October 25, 2023) – The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) is proud to announce the third annual AVCA Best and Brightest Awards for Girls High School Senior student-athletes. The AVCA Best & Brightest Award is an award meant to honor individual high school Senior student-athletes who excel on and off the court. To be eligible for the Best and Brightest Award, Senior student-athletes must have earned at least a 3.5 Unweighted/4.0 Weighted GPA (or the equivalent, if using a different GPA scale) during their junior year AND play in 50% of their varsity team’s sets during their senior season. Nominations for the award were completed last week.

Some additional tiers of recognition apply:

AVCA Best and Brightest First Team: 3.8 Unweighted GPA/4.3 Weighted GPA or above
AVCA Best and Brightest Second Team: 3.65 Unweighted GPA/4.15 Weighted GPA or above
AVCA Best and Brightest Third Team: 3.5 Unweighted GPA/4.0 Weighted GPA or above

Total amount of student-athletes receiving the 2023 AVCA Best and Brightest Award:

1,157

The awarded student-athletes are broken down in the following amounts:

AVCA Best and Brightest First Team: 747 Athletes
AVCA Best and Brightest Second Team: 210 Athletes
AVCA Best and Brightest Third Team: 200 Athletes