For the 11th time in the past 13 years, East Carolina has been honored as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division I All-Academic Team.

The team achieved a program-record 3.86 GPA during the 2023-24 academic year, with all nine members earning at least a 3.0. Additionally, the Pirates received the American Athletic Conference Women’s Tennis Academic Excellence Award earlier this summer for having the highest GPA among women’s tennis teams in the conference.

Kim Auerswald, Ines Bachir, Anne Lou Champion, Alisha Hussain, Brooke LaFrenz, Joan Madi, Martina Muzzolon, and Kexuan Zhou were named ITA Scholar Athletes. Champion and Muzzolon received this honor for the third consecutive year.

 

 

The ITA All-Academic Team award is available to any ITA program with a cumulative team GPA of 3.20 or higher (on a 4.00 scale). The cumulative team GPA includes all varsity letterwinners from the 2023-24 academic year. To achieve ITA Scholar-Athlete status, a player must have a GPA of 3.50 or above for the academic year.

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Pirates Nab IWLCA Academic Honors

 

 

For the sixth time in program history, East Carolina has been named an Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Honor Squad, as announced on Wednesday. Additionally, 11 members of East Carolina’s 2024 lacrosse team have been named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll for Division I.

The Pirates are among 324 teams across all divisions to receive this honor, having achieved it every season in the program’s history (the award was not given in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). To qualify for this prestigious honor, a women’s lacrosse team must have a team GPA of 3.2 or higher for the academic year.

Individually, juniors Erin Gulden, Caroline Meininger, and Izzi Seven; seniors Regina Di Chiara, Courtney Frank, Alexandra Giacolone, Carli Johnston, Summer Morrison, Madeleine Saucier, and Emily Stratton; and graduate student Frances Kimel were recognized for their academic achievements.

To be eligible for the Honor Roll, student-athletes must be a junior, senior, or graduate student and have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher.

The IWLCA honored 1,163 student-athletes from 113 institutions on the 2024 IWLCA Division I Academic Honor Roll.