7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The Mountain West Conference Champion UNLV women's tennis squad has again earned the designation of Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team while two individuals were also named an ITA Scholar-Athlete for 2016.
The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any school that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above. Impressively, head Coach Kevin Cory's program has reached that milestone in 13 of the last 15 seasons.
In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a player must be a 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. Earning that standing this year were junior kinesiology major Carol Yang and freshman hospitality management major Aiwen Zhu, both of whom were also named All-MW for their play on the courts this season.
The pair was earlier announced as two of a program-record eight UNLV women's players to earn 2016 Academic All-Mountain West honors. They were joined on that list by junior Paola Artiga, freshman Anna Bogoslavets, senior Iren Kotseva, sophomore Mercedes Lopez-Velez, freshman Cristina Moroi and freshman Reka Szentes.
To be eligible for selection to the Academic All-MW Team, student-athletes must have completed at least one academic term at the member institution, while maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Two of those same players â€" Yang and Zhu -- also earned the designation of Mountain West Scholar-Athlete, which goes to those with a cumulative GPA or 3.5 or better. Athletically, Yang was named the 2016 ITA Mountain Region Player to Watch while Zhu was tabbed MW Freshman of the Year.
