The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
Blazers Again Recognized By ITA For Academic Excellence
7/27/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
July 27, 2011
Complete List of Award Winners
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The UAB women's tennis team was recognized as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team for the 2010-11 school year, while seven Blazers were honored individually as ITA Scholar-Athletes.
The All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.2 or better. In order to earn Scholar-Athlete status, a player must be a varsity letterwinner, have a grade point average of at least 3.5 for the academic year and have been enrolled at his or her present school for at least two semesters.
Paula Alvarez, Jenny Cape, Brittany DeFelice, Caroline Faught, Menanteau Moolman, Giorgia Romeo and Evelien Strijker each earned the Scholar-Athlete award for the Blazers. The seven individual winners are the most ever for UAB, which was one of just eight programs in the nation to have at least seven players recognized.
Cape and Strijker are three-time winners of the award, while Moolman has made the list the past two years. Head coach Krissy Hall's UAB squad has also been recognized with the team award for three consecutive years.
The Blazers were announced last week as the Conference USA Sport Academic Award winner for women's tennis for having the highest GPA (3.58) among their league counterparts for the 2010-11 academic year. UAB placed nine players on the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll and had two -- Cape and Moolman -- earn the league's Academic Medal.
Cape was also named to the Capital One Academic All-America Women's At-Large Team, becoming the first UAB women's tennis player to earn that honor.
