Tempe, Ariz. - The Illinois Tech women's tennis team
was recognized academically yesterday by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association with seven student-athletes named as 2024-25 ITA Scholar Athletes, while the team as a whole earned ITA All-Academic Team honors for the 2024-25 academic year.
Angelica Conwell,
Ashley Dame,
Paige Geiger,
Hannah Markiewicz,
Maria Borrajo,
Ana Bustamante and
Carolina Guerrero were each named 2024-25 ITA Scholar-Athletes for their academic achievements this past year. 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.
For Dame, Geiger and Markiewicz, this is their second-consecutive year achieving ITA Scholar-Athlete honors. Additionally, Conwell, Dame, Borrajo and Bustamante each completed the academic year with 4.0 GPAs.
The Illinois Tech women's tennis team was also recognized as a 2024-25 ITA All-Academic Team. 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). The squad finished the year with a 3.77 grade point average.
The Illinois Tech Women's Tennis team has achieved ITA All-Academic Team honors 3 of the last 4 seasons.
About the ITA
Originally founded in 1956 by the legendary UCLA men's tennis coach, J. D. Morgan, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) is the governing body of college tennis, overseeing men's and women's varsity tennis at all levels – NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA and Junior/Community College. Officially incorporated in 1978 as the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association (ITCA), for over the past four decades the ITA has worked hard to achieve its charter goals: (1) "To foster and encourage the playing of intercollegiate tennis in accordance with the highest tradition of sportsmanship and consistent with the general objectives of higher education." (2) "To develop among the intercollegiate coaches a deeper sense of responsibility in teaching, promoting, maintaining, and conducting the game of tennis." And, (3) "To educate and serve those individuals and groups who are involved in collegiate tennis: junior and college players, their coaches and parents, and the at-large tennis public."
ITA Vision Statement: To ensure the long-term prosperity of college tennis as one of the most vibrant college sports; and provide a sustainable, thriving business model for the ITA as an independent global leader in the tennis/sports world.
