Men’s Tennis Named ITA All-Academic Team; Nine Earn ITA Scholar-Athlete Honors
ITA Announces 2024 Division I Men's Academic Awards
TEMPE, Ariz. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) men's tennis team has been named to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team, while nine Spartans earned a spot on the ITA Scholar-Athlete list, the association announced Monday.
Andrew Black, David Flisberg, John Gabelic, Harrison Gwynn, Hampus Johansson, Christopher Johns, Tymofiy Khrystyuk, Devon Moskowitz and Luke Thomson were named ITA Scholar-Athletes.
To earn a spot on the ITA Scholar-Athlete list, student-athletes must have a grade-point average (GPA) of at least 3.5 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year and be listed on the institutional eligibility form.
In addition, the entire squad was named an ITA All-Academic Team with a 3.24 GPA. To be named an ITA All-Academic Team, the team GPA must be 3.2 or above (on a 4.00 scale), all student-athletes must have been listed on the institutional eligibility form and all varsity letterwinners should be factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year.
There were 1,059 Division I men's student-athletes who were named ITA Scholar-Athletes, and 176 men's tennis programs were awarded the All-Academic Team distinction. Among them, stemmed from The Southern Conference (SoCon), with 47 student-athletes from the league recognized in total. UNCG had nine, Chattanooga had nine, Furman had eight, Mercer had six, Samford had six, Wofford had six and ETSU had three.
About the ITA
Originally founded in 1956 by the legendary UCLA men's tennis coach, J. D. Morgan, the ITA is the governing body of college tennis, overseeing men's and women's varsity tennis at all levels – NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA and Junior/Community College. Officially incorporated in 1978 as the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association (ITCA), for over the past four decades the ITA has worked hard to achieve its charter goals: (1) "To foster and encourage the playing of intercollegiate tennis in accordance with the highest tradition of sportsmanship and consistent with the general objectives of higher education." (2) "To develop among the intercollegiate coaches a deeper sense of responsibility in teaching, promoting, maintaining, and conducting the game of tennis." And, (3) "To educate and serve those individuals and groups who are involved in collegiate tennis: junior and college players, their coaches and parents, and the at-large tennis public."
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