{"id":11535,"date":"2025-07-21T19:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11535\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:16:12","slug":"eight-tennis-student-athletes-honored-as-ita-scholar-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11535\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Tennis Student-Athletes Honored as ITA Scholar-Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     TEMPE, Ariz. \u2013 The Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced its 2024-25 Division I All-Academic Awards on Monday and eight Saint Joseph&#8217;s men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis student-athletes received Scholar-Athlete honors from the organization.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe women&#8217;s team saw senior <a href=\"https:\/\/sjuhawks.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/ana-ocasio\/9449\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9449\" target=\"_blank\">Ana Ocasio<\/a> earn recognition for the fourth consecutive season while classmate <a href=\"https:\/\/sjuhawks.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/charlotte-kordonowy\/9923\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9923\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Kordonowy<\/a> was feted for the third time.\u00a0 Meanwhile, sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/sjuhawks.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/victoria-tracey\/9451\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9451\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Tracey<\/a> earned her first Scholar-Athlete honor.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn the men&#8217;s side, five team members were tabbed, with junior <a href=\"https:\/\/sjuhawks.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/john-butler\/9443\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9443\" target=\"_blank\">John Butler<\/a> pulling in his third consecutive honor, while junior <a href=\"https:\/\/sjuhawks.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/mark-rubin\/9446\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9446\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Rubin<\/a> and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/sjuhawks.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/othman-bezzaz\/9442\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9442\" target=\"_blank\">Othman Bezzaz<\/a> earned their second in a row.\u00a0 Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/sjuhawks.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/eli-gan-dy\/9444\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9444\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Gan-Dy<\/a> also earned his second honor, while freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/sjuhawks.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matthew-cizmarik\/9550\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9550\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Cizmarik<\/a> earned his first.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn addition, both squads earned ITA All-Academic Team recognition as well.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn order to qualify as an ITA Scholar-Athlete, a student-athlete must achieve at least a 3.5 grade point average over the course of the academic year.\u00a0 To qualify for All-Academic Team status, a team must have a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or better for the year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; TEMPE, Ariz. \u2013 The Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced its 2024-25 Division I All-Academic Awards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-11535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}