{"id":798354,"date":"2026-07-13T21:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798354\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:31:15","slug":"mens-tennis-named-ita-all-academic-team-six-eagles-earn-scholar-athlete-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798354\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Named ITA All-Academic Team; Six Eagles Earn Scholar-Athlete Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TEMPE, Ariz. \u2013 The North Carolina Central men’s tennis team was named a 2026 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team, closing a strong year in the classroom and on the courts.<\/p>\n

NCCU earned the honor as one of 162 Division I programs to finish the 2025-26 academic year with a team GPA of 3.2 or better. The Eagles’ academic success included three student-athletes who recorded perfect 4.0 GPAs in both the Fall and Spring semesters.<\/p>\n

Individually, six Eagles were recognized as ITA Scholar-Athletes. Lucas Artigas<\/a>, Neiman Sneed<\/a>, Kareem Abdul Hakim<\/a>, Rodrigo Alves<\/a>, Naresh Bharathy<\/a> and Antoni Pankowski<\/a> each maintained a GPA of at least 3.5 during the academic year, joining 1,008 Division I student-athletes recognized by the ITA.<\/p>\n

The men’s tennis program also led the NCCU athletic department academically, finishing with the highest team cumulative GPA in both the Fall 2025 (3.83) and Spring 2026 (3.78) semesters.<\/p>\n

For more information on NCCU Athletics, visit NCCUEaglePride.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links ITA All-Academic Teams ITA Scholar-Athletes …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-798354","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\/798354","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=798354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}