COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Texas A&M women’s tennis team was named a 2017 ITA All-Academic Team, and four Aggies were recognized as Scholar Athletes, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced.
Senior Saska Gavrilovska and junior Eva Paalma were named scholar athletes for the third consecutive year, while graduate student Stefania Hristov and sophomore Domenica Gonzalez were honored for the second consecutive year.
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 varsity letter winners were factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year (including fall 2016 and spring 2017).
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 through senior year).
In all, 720 teams and 3,908 student-athletes across all five divisions of college tennis were honored.
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Story courtesy of Texas A&M Athletics