{"id":805962,"date":"2026-07-16T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:59:11","slug":"massachusetts-tennis-earns-ita-all-academic-team-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805962\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Tennis Earns ITA All-Academic Team Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMHERST, Mass. \u2013 Eight members of the University of Massachusetts tennis team were recognized as ITA Scholar-Athletes, as announced by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, while the squad as a whole garnered ITA All-Academic Team honors of their combined academic success. Graduates <a href=\"https:\/\/umassathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/ella-faessler\/17643\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17643\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Faessler<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/umassathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/renata-farima\/17644\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17644\" target=\"_blank\">Renata Farima<\/a>, rising seniors <a href=\"https:\/\/umassathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/amanda-de-oliveira\/17652\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17652\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda de Oliveira<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/umassathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/amelia-tye\/17647\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17647\" target=\"_blank\">Amelia Tye<\/a>, rising juniors <a href=\"https:\/\/umassathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/owethu-makhanya\/17645\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17645\" target=\"_blank\">Owethu Makhanya<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/umassathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/martina-pavissich\/17646\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17646\" target=\"_blank\">Martina Pavissich<\/a> and rising sophomores <a href=\"https:\/\/umassathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/duru-baycan\/17649\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17649\" target=\"_blank\">Duru Baycan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/umassathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/madara-markevica\/17650\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17650\" target=\"_blank\">Madara Markevica<\/a> were among those that earned scholar-athlete accolades for the Minutewomen.<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts was one of 231 Division I women&#8217;s tennis programs to receive the ITA All-Academic Team award, as the honor is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or above (on a 4.0 scale). All varsity letterwinners were factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current 2025-26 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a player must meet the following criteria: 1.) be listed on the institutional eligibility form, and 2.) have a grade point average of at least 3.5 or above (on a 4.0 scale) for the current academic year.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMHERST, Mass. \u2013 Eight members of the University of Massachusetts tennis team were recognized as ITA Scholar-Athletes, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-805962","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\/805962","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=805962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}