Mercer Tennis Earns ITA Academic Awards

MACON, Ga. – The Mercer University men's and women's tennis teams have each earned the ITA All-Academic Team Award for the 2015-16 academic year, as announced by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association this week. Additionally, seven student-athletes have earned ITA Scholar-Athlete status.

The men's team has earned the ITA All-Academic Team Award for each of the last three seasons and Nicolas Guillon, Arnav Mohanty, Arsav Mohanty and Sam Philp have all been named ITA Scholar-Athletes. This is the third consecutive year in which Arnav Mohanty and Arsav Mohanty earned Scholar-Athlete status and it is the second straight year for Philp.

The women's team has earned the All-Academic Team Award in two of the last three years, while Roxy Bartz, Xandra Fougner and Katie Sidor were awarded Scholar-Athlete status. This is the third consecutive Scholar-Athlete honor for Bartz.

Mercer joins Chattanooga, ETSU and Samford as the only teams in the Southern Conference to earn All-Academic Team awards on both the men's and women's sides. The Furman and Western Carolina women's teams also earned All-Academic Team Awards.

The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). All varsity letter winners should be factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year (including fall 2015 and spring 2016).

In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a player must meet the following criteria: 1.) be a varsity letter winner, 2.) have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year, and 3.) have been enrolled at their present school for at least 2 semesters (including freshman through senior year).

Players Mentioned

Roxy Bartz

Xandra Fougner

Nicolas Guillon

Nicolas Guillon

Arnav Mohanty

Arsav Mohanty

Sam Philp

Sam Philp

Katie Sidor

Katie Sidor

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