Tempe, Az- The Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced the 2018 All-Academic Teams and Scholar-Athletes on Tuesday. The Penn State Harrisburg Women's Tennis team earned All-Academic Team status with five players earning Scholar-Athlete status. Four members of the Men's Tennis Team earned Scholar-Athlete status. In all, 735 teams and 4,328 student-athletes across all five divisions of college tennis were honored.
The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). All varsity letter winners were factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year (including fall 2017 and spring 2018).
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 through senior year).
Women
Sheila Ansary
Sheiva Ansary
Courtney Bennett
Soorya Chitibabu
Abigail Clifford
Men
Jared Gluck
Ryan McCurdy
Jonah Melnic
Eric Belles