TEMPE, Ariz. – The Western Michigan women's tennis team was named an All-Academic Team by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) while five individuals were named Scholar Athletes in Denise Azcui, Katja Fevralev, Melina Lyubomirova, Valentina Sanchez Briend and Gabriela Slavova.
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"We are honored to be an Academic All-American Team," commented WMU head coach Ryan Tomlinson. "Student athletes have two full-time jobs in attending classes and competing. We strive to be the best student athletes we can be. I couldn't be happier for these five individuals, they definitely put in the time in the classroom."
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 (on a 4.00 scale). All varsity letter winners were factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year (including fall 2017 and spring 2018).
In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a player must meet the following criteria: 1.) be a varsity letter winner, 2.) have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year, and 3.) have been enrolled at their present school for at least 2 semesters (including freshman through senior year).
As a team, the Broncos finished the 2017-18 academic year with a 3.31 team GPA while Azcui (3.86 GPA), Fevralev (3.75 GPA), Lyubomirova (3.61 GPA), Sanchez Briend (3.50 GPA) and Slavova (3.68 GPA) led the Brown & Gold.
