{"id":798524,"date":"2026-07-13T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798524\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:20:09","slug":"niu-mens-tennis-earns-ita-academic-team-and-individual-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798524\/","title":{"rendered":"NIU Men\u2019s Tennis Earns ITA Academic Team and Individual Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Men&#8217;s Tennis | July 13<\/p>\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     DeKALB, Ill. \u2013 The Northern Illinois University men&#8217;s tennis team earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic Team honors while five received Scholar-Athletes recognition, the organization announced today. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/niuhuskies.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/gustavo-juarez-lopez\/18141\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18141\" target=\"_blank\">Gustavo Juarez Lopez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/niuhuskies.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/lorenzo-leti-messina\/18149\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18149\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Leti Messina<\/a>, Pratyaksh, <a href=\"https:\/\/niuhuskies.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nikola-puntaric\/18148\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18148\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Puntaric<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/niuhuskies.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/chiao-bo-suo-nan\/18145\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18145\" target=\"_blank\">Chiao Bo Suo Nan<\/a> were all named ITA Scholar-Athletes. NIU received All-Academic Team honors with a 3.468 Spring GPA.<\/p>\n<p>For ITA All-Academic Team honors, the team must have a GPA of 3.2 or higher. To be named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, student-athletes must have at least a 3.5 GPA for the current academic year.<\/p>\n<p>In 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.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Tennis | July 13 &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; DeKALB, Ill. \u2013 The Northern Illinois University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-798524","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\/798524","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=798524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}