SC State Tennis Teams Lead MEAC With All-Academic Honors

NORFOLK, Va.,--The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) announced the 2013 Men's and Women's Tennis All-Academic selections, honoring 46 student-athletes, from the conference's 13 institutions who achieved academic success during the 2012-13 academic school year.
       The South Carolina State men's and women's tennis teams led the conference with nine student-athletes earning this prestigious achievement.
        “I am so pleased with our academic progress we emphasize to them (student-athletes) that they are students first and tennis is secondary and a means to achieving their educational goals,” said SC State head coach Hardeep Judge. “We tell our players that if you work hard in the classroom you will work hard on the tennis courts and that will lead to championships.”
         MEAC sophomore, junior and senior student-athletes with a 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average as well as transfer student-athletes who have been in residence at the institution for at least one year are eligible for All-Academic accolades.
         "I commend our men's and women's tennis student-athletes who have maintained a 3.0 or better grade point average during the academic school year," said Commissioner Dennis E. Thomas. "I would further like to congratulate the coaches, academic support staff and parents of these academic achievers for their contributions to the student-athletes' success."

Listed below are the 2012-13 Men's and Women's Tennis All-Academic honorees (by institutions):

Bethune-Cookman (6)
Chinatsu Kajiwara
Kip Jackson
Shereen Peterson-Paul
Moritz Pronath
Lara Rodriguez
Gilbert Rotich

Hampton (3)
Daneya Charles
Tabita Daolio
Renee Henry

Florida A&M (4)
Temuera Asafu Adjaye
Chidi Gabriel
Takura Happy
Cheikh Kante

Morgan State (8)
Arina Alilueva
Margarita Belyakova
Dmitriy Borodkin
Tiffany Hughes
William Jay
Ekaterina Iakovieva
Jannick Tash
Duwane Thomas

Norfolk State (7)
Kent Austin
Kia Batiste
Igor Braga
Rebecca Graff
Maryna Kariuk
Mafalda Lhorca
Shaheed Mourillon-Swift

North Carolina A&T (5)
Victorea Austin
April Burrage
Kenya Colbert
Kendra Esparaza-Harris
Chole McSwain

South Carolina State (9)
Katarina Barborikova
Tomas Bizon
Laura Bosneag
Maria Craciun
Marko Jereminov
Victoriia Khatcei
Artemiy Nikitin
Anton Protsenko
Peteris Vinogradous
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