ITA Honors Men's Tennis With Academic Award

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas men’s tennis team earned ITA All-Academic team recognition, while players Branch Terrell, Jacob Herndon, Johan den Toom, Jovan Parlic, and Santiago Munoz Quiroga were honored as ITA Scholar Athletes, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced Thursday.

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. All varsity letter winners should be factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year

In the fall, Arkansas achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.33 and in the spring finished with a cumulative GPA of 3.26. Freshman Terrell and sophomore Herndon led the program with an outstanding 4.0 GPA.

“We are proud of our team’s academic achievements,” said head coach Andy Jackson. “They apply themselves and it always is good to see hard work be recognized.”

All student-athletes whose names appear on the NCAA, NAIA or Junior/Community College eligibility form and completed one or more varsity matches are eligible. In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete Status a player must meet the following criteria: 1.) be a varsity letter winner, 2.) have a GPA of at least 3.50 for the current academic year, and 3.) have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters.

As announced earlier this month, den Toom, Herndon, Munoz Quiroga, and Parlic were selected to the SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll, along with Branch Terrell named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

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