{"id":806805,"date":"2026-07-17T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/806805\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:35:10","slug":"mens-tennis-earns-ita-all-academic-team-recognition-eight-tigers-named-scholar-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/806805\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Tennis Earns ITA All-Academic Team Recognition, Eight Tigers Named Scholar-Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPE, Ariz. \u2013 The University of Memphis men&#8217;s tennis program was recognized for its excellence in the classroom as the Tigers earned ITA All-Academic Team honors, while eight student-athletes were named ITA Scholar-Athletes, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) announced this week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;I am very proud of the standards we set in the classroom. The boys constantly achieve incredible grades with the very tough travel schedule we must have to compete at the highest level on the court. Big shout out to our academic advisor, Kristan Williams, who does a great job of getting the boys on task and organized.&#8221; said head coach Chris Doerr.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMemphis received ITA All-Academic Team recognition after posting a team grade point average above the required 3.2 threshold during the 2025-26 academic year. To qualify for the honor, all student-athletes listed on the institutional eligibility form and all varsity letter winners are included in the team&#8217;s cumulative GPA.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEight Tigers earned individual ITA Scholar-Athlete recognition: <a href=\"https:\/\/gotigersgo.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/leandro-zgraggen\/12314\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12314\" target=\"_blank\">Leandro Zgraggen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gotigersgo.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/obrad-markovski\/12761\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12761\" target=\"_blank\">Obrad Markovski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gotigersgo.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/sam-reeve\/10765\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10765\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Reeve<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gotigersgo.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/lasse-rensing\/12765\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12765\" target=\"_blank\">Lasse Rensing<\/a>, Sean O&#8217;Nuallain, <a href=\"https:\/\/gotigersgo.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/maxime-dubouch\/12310\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12310\" target=\"_blank\">Maxime Dubouch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gotigersgo.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/moritz-kudernatsch\/12311\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12311\" target=\"_blank\">Moritz Kudernatsch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gotigersgo.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/luis-carvalho\/12309\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12309\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Carvalho<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAcross Division I men&#8217;s tennis, 1,008 student-athletes were named ITA Scholar-Athletes, while 162 programs received ITA All-Academic Team recognition in 2026.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHow to follow the Tigers:\u00a0For complete information on\u00a0Memphis Tigers Tennis, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotigersgo.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.GoTigersGo.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow the team&#8217;s social media channels on<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UofMTennis\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0Twitter,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/memphiswtennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/.%20com\/MemphisWomensTennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. \u2013 The University of Memphis men&#8217;s tennis program was recognized for its excellence in the classroom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-806805","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\/806805","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=806805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}