By Jacob Plecker. BOONE, N.C. – For the third time in the last four years, App State tennis earned All-Academic Team honors from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) while five student-athletes were named ITA Scholar-Athletes. App State’s five honorees are the most since the 2021 season.
Brooke Gruber, Brooke Demerath, Olwyn Ryan-Bovey, Taya Powell and Maggie Pate were the five Mountaineers named ITA Scholar-Athletes. For Gruber, it’s the second time she has earned the award, while the other four are first-time honorees.
App State has had 24 consecutive semesters of at least a 3.0 GPA for all athletes.
As a team, the Mountaineers earned a 3.49 semester GPA and a 3.44 cumulative GPA, helping continue App State’s streak of 24 consecutive semesters with at least a 3.0 GPA for all athletes.
Academic recognition is nothing new for head coach Hannah Fetters and the Mountaineers as six student-athletes were named to the Spring 2024 Chancellor’s and Dean’s List this past semester. In her first year at App State, she has seen 90 percent of her student-athletes receive either Dean’s List or Chancellor’s List distinction.
A total of 1,573 Division I women’s student-athletes were named an ITA Scholar-Athlete in 2024, while 255 programs earned All-Academic Team distinction.
To be named an ITA All-Academic Team, programs must have a grade-point average of 3.2 or above (on a 4.00 scale).
For student-athletes to be named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, they must be a varsity letter winner and have a grade-point average above 3.5 (on a 4.00 scale).
