Texas Tech University Athletics
Women's Tennis Earns All-Academic Team Honor
August 19, 2010 | Women's Tennis
Aug. 19, 2010
Lubbock, Texas - The Texas Tech women's tennis team has earned the All-Academic Team honor from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). The Lady Raiders were one of two Big 12 squads to earn team recognition and the only Big 12 school to place five individuals on the individual scholar-athlete list.
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 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 2009 and spring 2010).
Coach Todd Petty's squad also earned the team academic honor and placed five student-athletes on the All-Academic Team last season.
Squad members Natalie Day, Kelsy Garland, Natalie Leitch, Mia Matuszak, and Stephanie Peana were named individual ITA scholar-athletes for 2009-2010.
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 thorough senior year).
To see the complete list of All-Academic teams and Scholar-Athletes follow the link: ITA Academic Awards
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