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University of Massachusets Athletics
ITA Salutes UMass For Academic Excellence
July 25, 2003 | Tennis
July 25, 2003
AMHERST, Mass. -- For the fourth time in five years, the University of Massachusetts women's tennis team has been selected to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's All-Academic Team and four Minutewomen have earned Scholar-Athlete honors from the same organization.
The Minutewomen, who finished second at the 2003 Atlantic 10 Championships, boasted a team gpa of 3.347 during the recently completed academic year. In addition to UMass, other New England institutions that have been honored at least four times in the past five years include Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Quinnipiac and Stony Brook. 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 4.0 scale).
Minutewomen selected as ITA Scholar-Athletes were junior Susan Hyams (Cincinnati, Ohio), sophomores Stephanie Price (Columbia, Mo.) and Sasha Edelstein (Haifa, Israel) and freshman Camilla Knight (Devon, England). All four student-athletes recorded classroom grade point averages of 3.885 or higher in 2002-03, with Knight recording a perfect 4.00 gpa. ITA Scholar-Athletes must meet the following selection criteria: 1). be a varsity letterwinner; 2). have a grade point average of at least a 3.50 for the current academic year; 3). have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters.
The ITA also announced that veteran UMass tennis coach Judy Dixon, the Atlantic 10's 2003 Coach of the Year, has been elected to the organization's Division I Operating Committee for the upcoming academic year. The operating committee's charge involves oversight of compliance with rules and regulations which pertain to the various ITA tournaments, dual meet play and rankings and other tennis related functions.