Seven Athenas land on ITA Scholar-Athlete award list; team earns award as well
Skillman, N.J. – A group of seven Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis players received Scholar-Athlete award honors, while the women's tennis team as a whole made the list of teams chosen for the All-Academic Team award in the recently released 2015 academic accolades from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).
The SCIAC and regional champion Athenas as a team put together a 3.353 grade point average and were one of 103 Division III programs from around the country who won the award.
Individually, Bria Smith (CMC), Caroline Ward (CMC), Katie Kuosman (CMC), Sanjana Sankaran (CMC), Sarah Kukino (CMC), Nithya Menon (HMC) and Samantha Nuno (SCR) were the seven Athenas who received the Scholar-Athlete distinction from the ITA.
The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any member program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). All eligible student-athletes whose names appear on the NCAA, NAIA or Junior/Community College eligibility form and have competed in one or more varsity matches must average into the GPA for the current academic year (including fall 2014 and spring 2015).
In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a player must meet the following criteria: 1.) be a varsity letter winner, 2.) have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year, and 3.) have been enrolled at their present school for at least 2 semesters (including freshman thorough senior year).
All members of the 2015 ITA All-Academic Teams and ITA Scholar-Athletes will receive a certificate to recognize the achievement.
About the ITA Awards program:
As the governing body of collegiate tennis, the ITA promotes both the athletic and academic achievements of varsity collegiate tennis players. The ITA, which is comprised of nearly 1,700 men's and women's varsity coaches and 20,000 student-athletes from over 1,200 institutions, has a comprehensive awards program for players and coaches to honor excellence in academics, leadership, sportsmanship and athletic performance. The ITA annually recognizes over 3,000 student-athletes on an individual and team basis from over 500 different varsity tennis programs. For more information on the ITA Awards program, please visit http://www.itatennis.com/AboutITA/AbouttheITA.htm.
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