BREVARD, N.C. –Brevard College men's tennis matched a program record set last season as six Tornados were selected as Scholar Athletes by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). The Tornados also secured All-Academic Team honors from the ITA for the second-consecutive season.
 
Charles Bertanzetti, Nathan Bookout, Garret Cardwell, David Hoyle, Hayden LeBlanc, and Brian Seon all earned ITA Scholar Athlete honors for the 2024-25 academic year.
 
Academia is an essential aspect of the college tennis experience. Collegiate tennis players add to the rich intellectual community found on college campuses nationwide.

To be named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, one must meet the following requirements:

• have a grade point average of at least 3.5 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year, and
• be listed on the institutional eligibility form.

To be named an ITA All-Academic Team, programs must meet the following requirements:

• have a team grade point average of 3.2 or above (on a 4.00 scale),
• all student-athletes included should be listed on the institutional eligibility form, and
• all varsity letter winners should be factored into the cumulative team GPA for the current academic year.

 
Bertanzetti, Hoyle, LeBlanc, and Seon all earned their second-straight appearance onto the Scholar Athlete list, while a pair of rising sophomores – Bookout and Cardwell – each made their inaugural appearance on the prestigious listing. LeBlanc secures his second academic honor of the summer, as he was earlier selected to the College Sports Communicators' Academic All-District Team.
 
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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