Women’s Tennis Earns Multiple Academic Honors From ITA
Head Coach Jeff Trivette
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNCG women's tennis team has been named a 2012 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic team for NCAA Division I while five Spartan student-athletes were named ITA Scholar Athletes, it was announced Monday.
This marks the fifth straight season the UNCG women's tennis program has earned All-Academic Team accolades, dating back to the 2008 season. UNCG, under the direction of 14th-year head coach Jeff Trivette, is one of six Southern Conference schools to earn the team distinction, joining the College of Charleston, Elon, Furman, Georgia Southern and Chattanooga.
The five UNCG student-athletes honored as Scholar Athletes include Alex Whitehead (Victoria, Australia/Star of the Sea College), Annette Rios (Santa Ana, El Salvador/Liceo Latinoamericano), Lucy Dougherty (Melbourne, Australia/Methodist Ladies College), Mikayla Rogers (Salem, Ore./Sprague) and Stephanie Falcon (Marietta, Ga./Walton).
Dougherty has earned ITA Scholar Athlete honors four times in her career while Whitehead has picked up the accoaldes three years in a row. Additionally, the women's tennis team placed seven members on the SoCon Academic Honor Roll this year with three members earning commissioner's medals.
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 eligible student-athletes whose names appeared on the NCAA eligibility form and have competed in one or more varsity matches, much average into the GPA for the current academic year (2011-12).
In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status, a student-athletes must meet the following criteria: 1.) be a varsity letterwinner, 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 two semesters.
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