Women’s tennis team and players garner ITA academic honors
PROVO, Utah – The Intercollegiate Tennis Association has named the BYU’s women’s tennis team a 2020 Division I Women’s ITA All-Academic Team honoree, while six Cougar players were named ITA Scholar-Athletes.
In 2020, 1,430 Division I Women student-athletes were named an ITA Scholar-Athlete and 244 women’s tennis programs were awarded the All-Academic Team distinction.
Emilee Astle (3.94 GPA), Morgan Hall Curtis (3.54 GPA) and Emma Jewell (3.91 GPA) were among the Cougar women’s team members who garnered ITA Scholar-Athlete citations. Also honored were Kate Cusick Truman (3.96 GPA), Helen Jiao (3.74 GPA) and Polina Malykh (3.9 GPA).
To be named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, one must have a grade point average of at least 3.5 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year and be listed on the institutional eligibility form.
To be honored as an ITA All-Academic Team, programs must have a team grade point average of 3.2 or above (on a 4.00 scale), all student-athletes included should be listed on the institutional eligibility form, and all varsity letterwinners should be factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year.
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