Sept. 18, 2009

LAS VEGAS - The UNLV's men's tennis team earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association Academic All-America status for the sixth consecutive season, the ITA recently announced.

The ITA team award is open to any program that has a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or above.

In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a player must be a varsity letterwinner, have a GPA of at least 3.50 for the current academic year and have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters.

Individually honored for head coach Owen Hambrook's squad were junior Luca Barlocchi, freshman Mehdi Bouras, senior Wesley Burrows (who won ITA kudos all four years on campus) and sophomore Bryan Miller.

It marked the eigth consecutive season that at least two UNLV men earned ITA Scholar-Athlete honors.