WATERBURY, Conn. -- For the second time in three seasons and third time overall, Post University Women's Tennis earned the ITA All-Academic Team Award along with landing players on the ITA Scholar Athletes list, this year featuring four players in seniors Megan Lombardt and Nina Langenfeld, along with junior Gioia Turco, and freshman Julie Merlin as announced by the organization late last week. 

The Eagles are coming off their third consecutive season in which they won the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference's Team GPA Award, with a cumulative 3.93 GPA for the 2024-25 academic year under Head Coach Rob Howard, who just completed his 17th season at the helm of the program. 
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
• 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

In all,  705 Division II women's student-athletes were named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, and 104 women's tennis programs were awarded the All-Academic Team distinction.


The entire list of student-athletes and team honorees can be found at the links above.