{"id":81114,"date":"2023-07-25T03:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=81114"},"modified":"2023-07-27T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T12:58:45","slug":"6-womens-tennis-players-named-ita-scholar-athletes-toledo-earns-ita-all-academic-team-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_25_2023\/6-womens-tennis-players-named-ita-scholar-athletes-toledo-earns-ita-all-academic-team-honors","title":{"rendered":"6 Women\u2019s Tennis Players Named ITA Scholar-Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toledo women’s tennis team earned its third-straight ITA All-Academic Team honor with a 3.72 grade point average, as recently announced by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. In addition, all six starting Rockets \u2014 Cassie Alcala,\u00a0Julia Kuszynski,\u00a0Mariona Perez,\u00a0Sanjana Tallamraju,\u00a0Shalini Tallamraju\u00a0and\u00a0Sloane Teske \u2014 earned ITA Scholar-Athlete status for their academic accomplishments during the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n

Alcala, Kuszynski, and\u00a0Shalini Tallamraju\u00a0earned their third ITA academic honor of their career at Toledo which\u00a0finished the 2022-23 season as the No. 7-ranked team in the Midwest Region. Teske\u00a0and\u00a0Sanjana Tallamraju\u00a0were honored for a second and first time, respectively.<\/p>\n

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Alcala, who was named MAC Player of the Year for the second-straight season,\u00a0is working towards a degree in human resource management with a 3.95 GPA. She finished the season with a 19-5 singles record and went 8-2 against MAC opponents from the No. 1 court. She started the season on a 14-match winning streak and clinched match point on five occasions. Alcala is also a CSC Academic All-District and Academic All-MAC honoree, while her No.16 ranking in the Midwest Region is the highest ever by a Rocket.<\/p>\n

Kuszynski is pursuing a degree in exercise science and earned a team-best 4.0 GPA this year. She was also an Academic All-MAC and CSC Academic All-District honoree this season. Kuszynski posted a 12-9 singles record mostly from the No. 6 court and\u00a0was 7-3 in conference play. She had a 14-7 doubles record from the No. 2 court. Kuszynski clinched match point three times this season, including a 6-1 win vs. No.70 FGCU on March 8.<\/p>\n

Perez graduated in May with a master’s degree in economics with a 3.64 GPA and was one of four Rockets to CSC Academic All-District honors. In her one season at UToledo, Perez compiled a 22-5 singles record and went 6-2 against MAC opponents from the No. 3 court. She notched a 14-12 (3-2 MAC) mark in doubles play from the No. 1 court.<\/p>\n

Sanjana Tallamraju\u00a0finished her first year as a business major with a 3.75 GPA. Tallamraju compiled a singles record of 17-6 from the No. 5 court, with an 8-2 record against conference opponents, and a 14-7 (7-2 MAC) doubles record from the No. 2 court.<\/p>\n

Shalini Tallamraju is a second-team All-MAC and MAC All-Tournament Team honoree. A biology major with a 3.96 GPA, she led UT with a team-best 20-3 record mostly from the No. 3 court, was 10-0 against MAC opponents. The No. 20-ranked singles player in the Midwest Region ended the season on a 12-match winning streak. Academically, Tallamraju also received Academic All-MAC and CSC Academic All-District distinctions.<\/p>\n

Teske has a 3.53 GPA and is working towards a degree in adolescent and young adult education. The three-time all-MAC honoree opened the season on an 11-match winning streak from the No. 2 court (April 24, 2022-Feb. 11, 2023). She earned a 24-8 record this season with an 8-2 record. In doubles play, Teske was the No. 1 team with Perez and compiled a 16-12 record.<\/p>\n

For an individual to earn Scholar-Athlete status, she must have a GPA of at least 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale for the current academic year and be listed on the institution eligibility form. For a team to earn All-Academic honors, the program must have a 3.2 GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale, have all student-athletes listed on the institution eligibility form, and all varsity letterwinners should be factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year.<\/p>\n

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Julia Kuszynski lead the way for the Rockets with a perfect 4.0 GPA. Toledo also earned ITA All-Academic Team Honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":886,"featured_media":81115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60,56,32,61,53,39,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81119,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81114\/revisions\/81119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}