Tempe, Ariz. - The Illinois Tech men's tennis team
was recognized academically Wednesday by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association with six 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.
Alexander Feher,
Pol Dueso Guell,
Eduardo Lopez,
Pedro Caroa-Accino Roca,
Tejas Sheth and
Hozumi Tada 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 Dueso Guell, this was his second-consecutive year achieving ITA Scholar-Athlete honors. Additionally, Feher, Dueso Guell and Tada each completed the academic year with 4.0 GPAs.
The Illinois Tech men'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 3.59 grade point average.
The Illinois Tech men's Tennis team has achieved ITA All-Academic Team honors 2 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.
