{"id":798030,"date":"2026-07-13T17:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798030\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:59:12","slug":"mens-tennis-garners-2026-ita-academic-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798030\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Garners 2026 ITA Academic Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 For the 13th consecutive year, the Columbia men&#8217;s tennis team has been recognized as an NCAA Division I All-Academic Team by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). In addition to the team recognition, 10 men&#8217;s tennis student-athletes were honored as Division I Scholar-Athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bAs part of the 2025-26 squad, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nicolas-kotzen\/20561\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20561\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Kotzen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jordan-chang\/21119\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21119\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Chang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/andrew-ena\/22657\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22657\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Ena<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/michael-zheng\/20567\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20567\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Zheng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/tristan-lee\/20562\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20562\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Lee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/aditya-govila\/22658\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22658\" target=\"_blank\">Aditya Govila<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/andrew-kotzen\/21121\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21121\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kotzen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jung-hee-you\/21120\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21120\" target=\"_blank\">Jung Hee You<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/thanaphat-boosarawongse\/21118\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21118\" target=\"_blank\">Thanaphat Boosarawongse<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/sachin-palta\/20563\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20563\" target=\"_blank\">Sachin Palta<\/a> all earned ITA Division I Scholar-Athlete distinction.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bTo be named to the ITA All-Academic Team, programs must maintain a team grade point average of 3.2 or above, with all current varsity athletes&#8217; marks factored into the cumulative result. Scholar-athletes must possess a minimum GPA of 3.5 for the academic year.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bIn 2026, 1,008 Division I Men&#8217;s student-athletes were named ITA Scholar-Athletes, and 162 men&#8217;s tennis programs were awarded the All-Academic Team distinction.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bFOLLOWING THE LIONS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nStay up to date on all things Columbia Men&#8217;s Tennis by following the Lions on X (@CULionsMTEN), Instagram (@culionsmten) and on Facebook (@ColumbiaAthletics).&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 For the 13th consecutive year, the Columbia men&#8217;s tennis team has been recognized as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-798030","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\/798030","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=798030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}