The Intercollegiate Tennis Association recognized the University of Southern Indiana women’s tennis team with 2016 Academic Awards, both team and individual honors.
The Screaming Eagles, which finished 2015-16 with a team 3.527 team cumulative grade point average (GPA), were one of 88 NCAA Division II team to earn All-Academic Team status. The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team GPA of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale).
Individually, USI senior Elizabeth Wilm (Evansville, Indiana); junior Brenna Wu (Evansville, Indiana); and sophomores Kelsey Shipman (Olney, Illinois), Jennifer Mizkar (Batavia, Illinois) and Haley Jones (Ft. Branch, Indiana) were named ITA Scholar Athletes. To be recognized as an ITA Scholar Athlete, a student athlete must be a varsity letter winner; have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year; and have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters.
