July 26, 2012

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) has recognized nine tennis squads from the Atlantic 10 as All-Academic Team selections. Additionally, 37 men and 40 women were named as individual Scholar-Athletes.

From the men's side, Charlotte, George Washington, Saint Joseph's University and Virginia Commonwealth University earned All-Academic Team Selections. The women's programs recognized were Charlotte, George Washington, St. Bonaventure, Saint Joseph's University and Saint Louis University.

In one academic year, the Atlantic 10 almost doubled its number of individual Scholar-Athletes and earned two more All-Academic Team selections.

The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team GPA of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). All eligible student-athletes whose names appear on the NCAA eligibility form and have competed in one or more varsity matches must average into the GPA for the current academic year (including fall 2011 and spring 2012) for the team to be included.

For a student-athlete to be eligible for the ITA Scholar Athlete status, they must be a varsity letter winner, have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year, and have been enrolled at their present school for at least 2 semesters (including freshman through senior year).

2012 A-10 Men's Scholar-Athletes

Butler: Bradley DiCarlo, Zachary Ervin, Ruben Geeraert, Stephen McLoughlin, Samuel O'Neil, William Weldon, Austin Woldmoe

Charlotte: Evan Calott, Paul Cisti, Nathaniel Shanok, Alex Weber, Jack Williams

George Washington: Richard Blumenfeld, Leonardo Lapentti, Ulrik Thomsen, Alexander van Gils

St. Bonaventure: Trevor Haskell, Elliot Fanshel, Oscar Yanez

Saint Joseph's University: Devin Bostick, Paul Ganev, Jeff Kessler, Max Montague, Alex Veronis

Saint Louis University: Dave Welkener, Nishaad Balachandran, Drew Feder, Patrick Kella, Vuk Poledica

Virginia Commonwealth University: Alejandro Argente, Antione Baroz, Camill Salomon, Filip Svensson, AJ Stuart, Max Wennakoski

Xavier: Philip Diaz, Patrick Eichler

2012 A-10 Women's Scholar-Athletes

Butler: Angelina Qin, Ashley Breitenbach, Brittany Farmer, Cam Thompson, Gabrielle Rubenstein, Kahfii King, Katelyn Panawash, Laura Shull, Stephanie McLoughlin

Charlotte: Emmanuelle Briant, Lisa Grosselius, Dominica Nemec, Natsuko Takayanagi, Alexandra Zinn

George Washington: Jacqui Corba, Meg Tyner, Mimi Hamling

Massachusetts: Gabriella Jannotta, Julia Comas-Espona

Richmond: Melissa Kandinata, Elizabeth Sims

St. Bonaventure: Andrea Pavlovic, Kathryn Kvas, Manuela Marin, Riley Archer

Saint Joseph's University: Aurora Davis, Kate Dowd, Laurence Roy, Tara Walsh

Saint Louis University: Brooke Urzendowski, Jenny Nalepa, Mia Elmore, Stephanie Hollis

Virginia Commonwealth University: Alex Bara

Xavier: Allyson Westling, Andrea Wolf, Daniella Patton, Kathleen Pleiman, Marietta Maffey, Natalie Handler