National Champion Ladies’s Tennis Honored As An ITA All-Academic Group; 12 Bears Acknowledged Individually

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) has introduced its NCAA Division III All-Academic Teams and Scholar-Athletes for the 2024-25 tutorial 12 months and the Washington University in St. Louis ladies’s tennis staff, together with 12 members of the staff, have been honored.

The Bears as a staff maintained a 3.79 GPA for the complete 2024-25 tutorial 12 months.

The 12 staff members who had been chosen as ITA Scholar-Athletes as a part of the group’s announcement embody seniors Ainsley Heidbreder, Randi Hendricks, and Carolyn Tsung, together with juniors Amber Edmonds, Eliana Hanna, Hallie Jeffers, and Nina Moravek, sophomores Emily Chiasson and Katie Finerman, and first-years Chloe Brissett, Caitlin Bui, and Sam Slowik.

The staff award is given to packages with no less than a mixed 3.2 GPA this previous 12 months. Individual athletes will need to have maintained a 3.5 GPA for the educational 12 months to be honored as a scholar-athlete.

Last season, the Bears claimed this system’s first-ever NCAA Div. III National Championship with a 4-3 win over No. 3 Pomona-Pitzer within the title match. Along the way in which they defeated No. 1 Chicago within the quarterfinals and No. 9 Johns Hopkins within the semifinals. Sophomore Eleanor Archer teamed up with Bui to earn not solely All-American honors in doubles however every earned the popularity in singles as properly. The duo claimed this system’s first-ever ITA Cup Doubles National Championship within the fall and remained within the prime 5 within the rankings for the remainder of the season.

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