Women’s Tennis Honored with ITA Academic Awards

GILBERT, Ariz. – The Northwestern women's tennis program received multiple academic honors from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), with five student-athletes named ITA Scholar-Athletes and Northwestern being named an All-Academic Team.

To be an ITA Scholar-Athlete, athletes must have a GPA of at least 3.5 and be listed on the institutional eligibility form. To be named an ITA All-Academic Team, programs must have a team GPA of 3.2 or above, have all student-athletes be listed on the institutional eligibility form, and all varsity letter winners factored into the cumulative team GPA.

Northwestern compiled a GPA of 3.38 to be named an All-Academic Team. Red Raider student-athletes Emily Westenberg, Pietra Ferreira, Alloree Else, Matilde Di Martino, and Madalyn Kolb were among Northwestern's ITA Scholar-Athletes.

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."

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Players Mentioned

Alloree Else: 5' 5"; Sophomore

Pietra Ferreira: 5' 2"; Sophomore

Madalyn Kolb: 5' 4"; Junior

Emily Westenberg: 5' 7"; Junior

Matilde Di Martino: Freshman

Players Mentioned

Alloree Else
: 5' 5"; Sophomore

Pietra Ferreira
: 5' 2"; Sophomore

Madalyn Kolb
: 5' 4"; Junior

Emily Westenberg
: 5' 7"; Junior

Matilde Di Martino
: Freshman