Five Tennis Teams, 27 Student-Athletes Earn ITA Academic Honors - AmericaEast.com
SKILLMAN, N.J. - Five America East tennis programs and 27 student-athletes have been recognized by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) for academic achievement during the 2010-11 academic year, the organization announced last week.
Binghamton University, which won its fourth straight America East Championship in 2011, was one of two men's teams to receive the ITA All-Academic Team Award, along with Stony Brook University. On the women's side, University of Hartford, UMBC and Stony Brook all received the honor.
Two-time America East Scholar-Athlete of the Year Sven Vloedgraven led a group of 16 men's tennis standouts honored with ITA Scholar-Athlete recognition. He was joined was teammates Andreas Danielsson, Ruben Devos, Alexandre Haggai, Arnav Jain, Rafael Rodriguez and Gilbert Wong, Boston University's Bill Kring, Andrei Stern and Marcus VanBerkel, Hartford's Aneil Bhalla, UMBC's Shane Yap and Stony Brook's Francesco Arciulli, Roope Kailaheimo, Ivan Rummel and Ryan Scmitz.
Scholar-Athletes on the women's side included: Boston University's Monika Mical and Petra Santini, Hartford's Nikki Haynal, Maggie Sabatino, Emily Willhoft and Katina Zampas, UMBC's Kim Berhaus, Julia Gragera-Cano and Emily Mannix and Stony Brook's Fanny Charliquart and Gayarti Krishnan, the 2011 America East women's tennis Scholar-Athlete.
The ITA All-Academic Team award is given to any ITA 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/NJCAA eligibility form and have competed in one or more varsity matches must average into the GPA for the current academic year.
In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a player must be a varsity letter winner and have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year. They also must have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters (including freshman thorough senior year).