SPRINGFIELD, Mo.— Both the Drury men's and women's tennis teams won Intercollegiate Tennis Association Team Academic awards, and 14 players from DU's tennis squads were named Scholar-Athletes by the ITA.
 
To earn a Team Academic Award from the ITA, teams had to post a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or better among their varsity letter winners. Drury's women's tennis team had a 3.55 GPA, while the men's team earned a 3.42 GPA. Both teams also won a Great Lakes Valley Conference Team Academic Award earlier this year. 
 
Eight members of Drury's men's team picked up a Scholar-Athlete honor, while six players from the women's squad won the award. Student-athletes had to have a minimum of a 3.5 grade point average for the current academic year to be named a Scholar-Athlete by the ITA.
 
The Drury men's team finished the season 9-7 and won the GLVC West Division going 5-0 in the conference. The Panthers women's team went 16-4, advanced to the NCAA-II Tournament, and ended the year ranked 24^th in the nation.
 
Drury Scholar-Athlete award winners
Drury Men's Team
Mark Belk
Tal Cohen
Jip De Buck
Luis Dobelmann
Alejandro Esquivel
Claudio Vertiz
Santiago Villanueva
Marlon Wilken
 
Drury Women's Team
Maria Fernanda De La Torre Espejo
Kseniia Eremina
Lily Gardner
Clara Kuehnle
Ana Ristevska
Ewa Samberger
 
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