From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics
The Carnegie Mellon University men's tennis team was honored for
the fifth straight season and 12th time in the last 13 years by the
Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) as an ITA All-Academic
Team. In addition, seven players were named ITA Scholar
Athletes.
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 and the
men's team achieved a cumulative team average of 3.58 for the
year.
In addition to the team honor, senior Julian
Pearlman (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon), juniors Will
Duncan (Newbury Park, Calif./Newbury Park) and Christian
Heaney-Secord (Westwood, Mass./Westwood),
sophomore Abhishek Alla (Hyderabad, India/IMG Pendleton
School) and freshmen Kiril Kirkov (Tampa, Fla./C. Leon
King), Kunal Wadwani (Saratoga, Calif./Ballarmine College
Prep) and Kenny Zheng (Pennington, N.J./Hopewell Valley
Central) were named Scholar Athletes.
In order to be eligible to be an ITA Scholar Athlete, a player must
be a varsity letter winner, have a GPA of at least 3.50 and been
enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters.