SPRINGFIELD, Mo.–  Both Drury tennis teams and 16 members from the two squads earned academic awards from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The Drury men's and women's teams won an All-Academic Team Award, while eight members from the DU women's team and eight from the Drury men's squad were named Scholar Athletes by the ITA. 
 
Teams with a combined grade point average of 3.2 or above were awarded an All-Academic Team award, and student-athletes with a 3.5 GPA or better earned a Scholar Athlete award from the ITA.
 
The Drury women's tennis team posted a 3.76 grade point average or 2023-24, the top mark among Drury's official NCAA programs. The DU men's team had a 3.53 GPA, and both teams were honored with a Team Academic All-GLVC award from the Great Lakes Valley Conference earlier this summer.
 
The Drury women's tennis team ended the season with a 13-7 record and a 5-0 mark in the GLVC's West Division. The men's team went 16-5, 4-0 in the GLVC, and advanced to the NCAA-II Tournament.
 
Drury ITA Scholar Athlete award winners
Men's Team
Mark Belk
Tjade Bruns
Mark Drozdetskii
Alejandro Esquivel
Lukas Rieber
Yaroslav Sharyy
Claudio Vertiz Olivares
Marlon Wilken
 
Women's Team
Alma Abazi
Leana Chanove
Maria Fernanda De la Torre Ugarte Espejo
Emma Lawson
Emma Neidig
Franca Piaggi
Ewa Samberger
Eliana Weichel
 

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