The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) announced its 2020 All-Academic Teams and Scholar-Athletes on Wednesday. Lake Forest College had 12 players named All-America Scholar-Athletes while the Forester women were recognized as an ITA All-Academic Team for the fourth year in a row.
This year saw 300 collegiate teams and more than 2,000 individuals make the list.
All-Academic teams boast a team GPA of 3.20 or higher while ITA scholar-athletes 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).
Forester junior Julie Lord is now a three-time honoree while classmate Tyranny Miller and sophomores Tebatso Duba and Matthew Pawlowski earned their second such awards. They were joined on the list by senior Leeza Bodnar; juniors Brant Christensen, Grace Gould, and Emma Wang; sophomores Zach Cho and Pratheek Mandalapu; and freshman Natalia Leite and Oleksyi Vyshyvanyuk.