ORLANDO, Fla. – The UCF women's tennis team has been named an ITA All-Academic Team for the tenth consecutive year and has eight members from this season's squad on the ITA Scholar Athlete list.
The Knights have made a habit of being one of the best in the country at continuing to excel on the court and in the classroom. Since 1998, the team has achieved All-Academic Team status 18 times. To be an ITA All-Academic Team, the entire roster must average a 3.2 GPA or better throughout the calendar year.
Nadja Bay Christians, Sara Culbertson, Ksenia Kuznetsova, Valentina Martin, Marie Mattel, Nandini Sharma, Rebeka Stolmar and Domenika Turkovic were all named as ITA Scholar Athletes. To be named a scholar athlete, a student-athlete must finish the current academic year with a 3.5 GPA or higher.
The recent nomination gives Stolmar three nods as an ITA Scholar Athlete. Kuznetsova, Sharma, Martin and Turkovic all were awarded their second stint of the honor this year while Mattel and Culbertson earned their first. The ITA released their list of All-Academic Teams and Scholar Athletes on Monday afternoon.
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