Spartan Women’s Tennis Team Earns ITA Team And Individual Academic Awards
7/21/2025 11:06:00 AM | Women's Tennis
MSU garners ITA All-Academic Team Award for 12th-straight season, seven individuals selected as Scholar-Athletes.
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State women's tennis team earned 2024-25 Division I ITA Academic Team accolades, while seven MSU individual student-athletes also captured ITA Scholar-Athlete honors, announced by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Monday.
Freshman Ellie Blackford, junior Sarah Fazlagic, junior Matilde Morais, redshirt-sophomore Oriana Parkins-Godwin, junior Issey Purser, sophomore Natalie Stasny and redshirt-sophomore Hanna Tsitavets, were all recognized as ITA Scholar-Athletes.
For Fazlagic, this is her third time receiving the accolade, while Morais, Purser and Stasny all garnered the recognition for the second time. Blackford, Parkins-Godwin and Tsitavets are first-time recipients.
As a program, MSU has now been named an ITA All-Academic Team for the 12th-consecutive year and the 17th time overall.
In 2025, 1,462 Division I women's student-athletes were named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, and 222 women's tennis programs were awarded the All-Academic Team distinction.
To be named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, one must 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 have a team grade point average of 3.2 or above (on a 4.00 scale).
Freshman Ellie Blackford, junior Sarah Fazlagic, junior Matilde Morais, redshirt-sophomore Oriana Parkins-Godwin, junior Issey Purser, sophomore Natalie Stasny and redshirt-sophomore Hanna Tsitavets, were all recognized as ITA Scholar-Athletes.
For Fazlagic, this is her third time receiving the accolade, while Morais, Purser and Stasny all garnered the recognition for the second time. Blackford, Parkins-Godwin and Tsitavets are first-time recipients.
As a program, MSU has now been named an ITA All-Academic Team for the 12th-consecutive year and the 17th time overall.
In 2025, 1,462 Division I women's student-athletes were named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, and 222 women's tennis programs were awarded the All-Academic Team distinction.
To be named an ITA Scholar-Athlete, one must 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 have a team grade point average of 3.2 or above (on a 4.00 scale).
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