{"id":800539,"date":"2026-07-14T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800539\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:48:09","slug":"tennis-tabbed-as-ita-all-academic-team-six-earn-scholar-athlete-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800539\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Tabbed as ITA All-Academic Team, Six Earn Scholar Athlete Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON\u00a0\u2014 After a successful season on the court, the University of Houston Tennis team shined in the classroom as well as six student-athletes earned ITA Scholar Athlete Recognition and the team was tabbed as an ITA All-Academic Team, the association announced.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/gabriela-cortes\/9478\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9478\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriela Cortes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/sophie-schouten\/9481\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9481\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Schouten<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/chems-doha-zeghlouli\/9735\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9735\" target=\"_blank\">Chems Doha Zeghlouli<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/elizaveta-morozova\/9480\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9480\" target=\"_blank\">Elizaveta Morozova<\/a>, junior <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/valeriia-krokhotina\/9479\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9479\" target=\"_blank\">Valeriia Krokhotina<\/a> and freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/alexia-lavinia-puiac\/9927\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9927\" target=\"_blank\">Alexia Lavinia Puiac<\/a> all earned ITA Scholar Athlete recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars posted a 3.7 spring GPA with all eight members recording a 3.1 GPA or better. Cortes, Krokhotina, Puiac and Schouten all posted 4.0 GPAs for the semester.<\/p>\n<p>All eight players earned a spot on the Academic All-Big 12 Team and Krokhotina, Schouten and Zeghlouli were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.<\/p>\n<p>SUPPORT YOUR COOGS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can make a direct impact on the success of Houston Tennis by <a href=\"https:\/\/app.uhcougars.com\/UH25PartnerWSA?utm_medium=email&amp;elq_cid=535077&amp;RSRC=Email&amp;RDAT=1389&amp;ehash=b7f491ff42331f557fe859ad04cd3438c083957d629518a46cce2a8f756df6de&amp;aid=16089&amp;pid=uh_email_eloqua&amp;rid=1389\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">providing NIL opportunities<\/a> and by joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougarpride.com\/membership-center\/giving-opportunities\/sport-specific-clubs\/center-court-club\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center Court Club<\/a>, which provides financial support directly to Houston Tennis for needs beyond its operating budget.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSTAY CONNECTED<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can receive updates by following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UHCougarTennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UHCougarTennis<\/a> on X, formerly known as Twitter and catch up with the latest news and notes on the team by clicking LIKE on the team&#8217;s Facebook page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UHCougarTennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UHCougarTennis<\/a> or on the team&#8217;s Instagram page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uhcougartennis\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@uhcougartennis<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 UHCougars.com \u2013<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON\u00a0\u2014 After a successful season on the court, the University of Houston Tennis team shined in the classroom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-800539","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\/800539","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=800539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}