EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State women’s tennis team earned 2025-26 Division I ITA Academic Team accolades, while all nine MSU individual student-athletes on the Spartans’ roster also captured ITA Scholar-Athlete honors, announced by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sophomore Ellie Blackford<\/a>, sophomore Amara Brahmbhatt<\/a>, senior Sarah Fazlagic<\/a>, senior Matilde Morais<\/a>, redshirt-junior Oriana Parkins-Godwin<\/a>, sophomore Nina Plihal<\/a>, senior Issey Purser<\/a>, freshman Anna Maria Tottrup<\/a> and redshirt-junior Hanna Tsitavets<\/a>, were all recognized as ITA Scholar-Athletes.<\/p>\n For Fazlagic, this is her fourth time receiving the accolade, while Morais and Purser both garnered the recognition for the third time. Blackford, Parkins-Godwin and Tsitavets are two-time recipients, while Brahmbhatt, Plihal and Tottrup collected the honors for the first time.<\/p>\n As a program, MSU has now been named an ITA All-Academic Team for the 13th-consecutive year and the 18th time overall.<\/p>\n In 2026, 1,501 Division I women’s student-athletes were named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, and 231 women’s tennis programs were awarded the All-Academic Team distinction.<\/p>\n To be named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, one must have a 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. To be named an ITA All-Academic Team, programs must have a team grade point average of 3.2 or above (on a 4.00 scale).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State women’s tennis team earned 2025-26 Division I ITA Academic Team accolades, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-799968","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\/799968","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=799968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}