Rock Hill, S.C. – For a 15^th consecutive year the Winthrop men's tennis team earned Division I Men ITA All-Academic Team recognition. In addition to the team honor, the Eagles had seven members named ITA Scholar-Athletes.

Gabriel Dias, Rhys Jones, Bernardo Kayat, Miha Velicki, Abhimanyu Vannemreddy, Connor Williamson, and Lluis Miralles all earned ITA Division I Scholar-Athlete honors. Dias and Kayat earned the honor for a third time while it was the second straight year for Miralles.

Winthrop was 1-of-6 Big South Conference institutions recognized along with Asheville, Gardner-Webb, Presbyterian College, Radford and USC Upstate. This was the first time since 2016 that the league had at least six members earn the academic recognition.

The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a player must meet the following criteria: 1.) be a varsity letter winner, 2.) have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year, and 3.) have been enrolled at their present school for at least 2 semesters (including freshman through senior year).