{"id":821466,"date":"2026-07-24T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:13:17","slug":"shorewomen-tennis-and-five-student-athletes-lauded-for-academic-achievement-by-ita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821466\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorewomen Tennis and Five Student-Athletes Lauded for Academic Achievement by ITA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TEMPE, Ariz. – Five Washington College women’s tennis student-athletes have been named 2026 ITA (Intercollegiate Tennis Association) Scholar-Athletes for Division III. In addition, the Shorewomen were one of 177 Division III programs to have received the ITA All-Academic Team award.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Student-athletes selected for scholar-athlete had to have had grade-point average of at least 3.5 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year and be listed on the institutional eligibility form.\u00a0 For the All-Academic Team award, the team needed to have a grade-point average of at least 3.2 (on a 4.00 scale), all student-athletes included should be listed on the institutional eligibility form and all varsity letter winners should be factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recent graduate Isabella Sorhegui<\/a> (Naples, Fla.\/Barron Collier), rising juniors Gaby Coutts<\/a> (Burnet, Texas\/Cedar Park) and Sofia Sperandei<\/a> (Pyla, Cyprus\/King Richard School) and rising sophomores Juanita Arbelaez<\/a> (Cali, Colombia\/Colegio Bolivat) and Jess Wilde<\/a> (Attleborough, England\/Culford School) were the five Shorewomen to be named ITA Scholar-Athletes. They were five of the 1,309 from across Division III women’s tennis to be named scholar-athletes.<\/p>\n

Sorhegui garnered scholar-athlete for the fourth time, Coutts and Sperandei landed the honor for the second time, while Arbelaez and Wilde are first-time recipients.<\/p>\n

The Shorewomen were one of eight from the Centennial Conference to earn the team award along with Bryn Mawr, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Haverford, Muhlenberg, Swarthmore and Ursinus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links 2026 ITA Division III Women\u2019s Academic Awards …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-821466","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\/821466","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=821466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}