CHENEY, Washington — This summer, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (“ITA”) announced the 2024 Division I Women’s ITA Scholar-Athletes and All-Academic Teams.
The Eastern University women’s tennis team was named ITA All-Academic Team and seven Eagles received ITS Scholar-Athlete honors.
Anait Arutiunian, Isabella Foshee, Jennifer Kida, Kelly Arends, Kenzington Mann, Sara VasicAnd Scout Mathews were all awarded the ITS Scholar-Athlete Award.
In 2024, 1,573 Division I student-athletes were named ITA Scholar-Athletes and 255 women’s tennis programs received All-Academic Team honors.
To be named to the ITA All-Academic Team, programs must meet the following requirements:
- Have a grade point average of 3.2 or higher (on a 4.00 scale),
- All included student-athletes should be listed on the institutional participation form and
- All varsity letter winners should be included in the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year.
To be named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, the following requirements must be met:
- Have a grade point average of at least 3.5 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year
- Be listed on the institutional authorization form
In the 2022-23 NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR), the Eagles women’s tennis achieved a perfect multi-year score and achieved a multi-year score of 1,000 in the current academic calendar year, as announced by the NCAA.
The APR is the annual standard of academic performance calculated for all NCAA Division I sports.
Women’s tennis continued to set the standard for the Eagles, achieving a perfect APR score for the sixth consecutive year and ninth year overall in program history.
As a department, Eastern Athletics extended “The Streak” to 51 consecutive quarters with a GPA above 3.0, achieving a total score of 3.42 for the spring.
ABOUT EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS
Eastern Washington University Athletics sponsors 14 varsity sports, six for men and eight for women, both as a learning opportunity for the most athletically gifted students and as an enrichment of student and community life. Eastern is affiliated with Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and is a member of the Big Sky Conference, an association of 10 regional schools with comparable enrollment numbers and academic goals.
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