{"id":763077,"date":"2026-06-26T19:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763077\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:24:15","slug":"mens-golf-mens-tennis-take-home-cusa-sport-academic-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763077\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf, Men\u2019s Tennis take home CUSA Sport Academic Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MURFREESBORO, Tenn.- Middle Tennessee men&#8217;s golf and men&#8217;s tennis have been named recipients of Conference USA&#8217;s Sport Academic Awards following the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Sport Academic Award is given to the team in each conference-sponsored sport with the highest GPA for the academic year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This follows a successful season by both programs. Men&#8217;s tennis took home a seventh-consecutive CUSA championship while sweeping the league&#8217;s superlative awards.<\/p>\n<p>Off the court, the Blue Raiders were led by seniors Freddy Murray and Karim Al-Amin, who were both named to the CUSA All-Academic team. Al-Amin was also named the CUSA Scholar Athlete of the Year for his success on the court, in the classroom and in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s golf caps off a season that included a CUSA Championship Semifinal berth as a team, and a NCAA regional qualifier in redshirt senior Carter Maneth. To pair with the success on the links, Maneth and redshirt sophomore Connor Henry led the team academically with CUSA All-Academic selections.<\/p>\n<p>Sport Academic Awards:<\/p>\n<p>Baseball \u2013 DBU<br \/>Men&#8217;s Basketball \u2013 WKU<br \/>Women&#8217;s Basketball \u2013 LA Tech<br \/>Men&#8217;s Cross Country \u2013 Jax State<br \/>Women&#8217;s Cross Country \u2013 FIU<br \/>Football \u2013 WKU<br \/>Men&#8217;s Golf \u2013 MTSU<br \/>Women&#8217;s Golf \u2013 Jax State<br \/>Women&#8217;s Soccer \u2013 Jax State<br \/>Men&#8217;s Tennis \u2013 MTSU<br \/>Women&#8217;s Tennis \u2013 WKU<br \/>Men&#8217;s Track and Field \u2013 Liberty<br \/>Women&#8217;s Track and Field \u2013 Liberty<br \/>Softball \u2013 Jax State<br \/>Volleyball \u2013 FIU<br \/>Beach Volleyball \u2013 UTEP<br \/>Bowling \u2013 Jax State<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Blue Raiders: Stay up to date with Blue Raider Athletics on X (<a style=\"text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MTAthletics\">@MTAthletics<\/a>), Facebook (<a style=\"text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BlueRaiderAthletics\/\">Blue Raider Athletics<\/a>) and Instagram (<a style=\"text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mtathletics\/?hl=en\">@MTAthletics<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MURFREESBORO, Tenn.- Middle Tennessee men&#8217;s golf and men&#8217;s tennis have been named recipients of Conference USA&#8217;s Sport Academic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-763077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}