{"id":800540,"date":"2026-07-14T04:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800540\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:04:08","slug":"mens-tennis-earns-ita-all-academic-team-honors-eight-knights-named-scholar-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800540\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Earns ITA All-Academic Team Honors; Eight Knights Named Scholar-Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{ebe15ed0-4804-4e4a-a8ef-3a0950b1e04b}{171}\" paraid=\"705861897\">LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 The Bellarmine University men&#8217;s tennis team was recognized for its performance in the classroom as the Knights earned 2026 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division I All-Academic Team honors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{ebe15ed0-4804-4e4a-a8ef-3a0950b1e04b}{176}\" paraid=\"1565304610\">Bellarmine was one of 162 Division I men&#8217;s tennis programs nationwide to receive the distinction. To qualify as an ITA All-Academic Team, a program must record a team grade-point average of at least 3.2 for the academic year, with all varsity letter winners included in the cumulative team GPA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{ebe15ed0-4804-4e4a-a8ef-3a0950b1e04b}{181}\" paraid=\"88833229\">The honor marks the third time Bellarmine has been named an ITA All-Academic Team. The Knights also received the recognition following the 2020-21 and 2022-23 academic years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{ebe15ed0-4804-4e4a-a8ef-3a0950b1e04b}{186}\" paraid=\"704937680\">All eight members of Bellarmine&#8217;s roster also earned individual recognition as ITA Scholar-Athletes. The Knights&#8217; honorees were <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/sebastian-baumann\/9962\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9962\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Baumann<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/colby-berson\/9963\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9963\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Berson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/alex-english\/10184\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10184\" target=\"_blank\">Alex English<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matthew-nice\/9958\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9958\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Nice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/ryan-parkins\/9964\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9964\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Parkins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/vineet-ramesh\/9959\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9959\" target=\"_blank\">Vineet Ramesh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/zak-vince\/9960\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9960\" target=\"_blank\">Zak Vince<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/eli-wood\/9961\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9961\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Wood<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{ebe15ed0-4804-4e4a-a8ef-3a0950b1e04b}{191}\" paraid=\"1854251483\">To be named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, a student-athlete must maintain a GPA of at least 3.5 during the academic year and be listed on the institution&#8217;s eligibility form. A total of 1,008 Division I men&#8217;s tennis student-athletes earned the honor in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more coverage of Bellarmine Athletics follow @BUKnights on X, Instagram, and Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 The Bellarmine University men&#8217;s tennis team was recognized for its performance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-800540","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\/800540","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=800540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}