{"id":803915,"date":"2026-07-15T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803915\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:33:14","slug":"siue-womens-tennis-earns-ita-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803915\/","title":{"rendered":"SIUE Women\u2019s Tennis Earns ITA Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. \u2013 For the eighth consecutive season under Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/adam-albertsen\/1504\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1504\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Albertsen<\/a>, the SIUE women&#8217;s tennis team has been honored for academic achievements by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;This team continued to raise the bar on the courts and in the classroom this past year,&#8221; said Albertsen.\u00a0&#8220;I am extremely proud of the work they put in as student-athletes and how they represent SIUE in the community. Go Cougars!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nine SIUE women&#8217;s tennis players, who led the Cougars to the 2026 regular season Ohio Valley Conference crown, were named Division I Women&#8217;s ITA Scholar-Athletes, and the team overall was selected among the nation&#8217;s All-Academic teams. Student-athletes must earn at least a 3.5 GPA for inclusion as an ITA scholar-athlete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">SIUE&#8217;s ITA Scholar-Athletes are <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/elena-palioura\/12320\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12320\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Palioura<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/chloe-koons\/12313\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12313\" target=\"_blank\">Chloe Koons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/margaux-guibal-britt\/12312\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12312\" target=\"_blank\">Margaux Guibal Britt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/stefaniya-anikina\/12311\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12311\" target=\"_blank\">Stefaniya Anikina<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/mya-bowe\/12315\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12315\" target=\"_blank\">Mya Bowe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/jessica-li\/12318\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12318\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Li<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/emerson-metzger\/12317\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12317\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson Metzger<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/aliya-rector\/12316\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12316\" target=\"_blank\">Aliya Rector<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/siuecougars.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/cydney-rogers\/12314\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12314\" target=\"_blank\">Cydney Rogers<\/a>. They were among 1,501 Division I women&#8217;s student-athletes nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. \u2013 For the eighth consecutive season under Head Coach Adam Albertsen, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-803915","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\/803915","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=803915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}