{"id":3488,"date":"2009-08-06T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-women-s-tennis-really-really-smart\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:19:00","slug":"lbsu-women-s-tennis-really-really-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-women-s-tennis-really-really-smart","title":{"rendered":"LBSU Women’s Tennis: Really, Really Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The staple stories of the summer downtime for us have been the Armada, USA Volleyball, and documenting the ever-expanding list of academic awards being heaped onto the Long Beach State women’s tennis team.\u00a0 <\/span>Here’s another in that latter category, this time from the ITA, tennis’ governing body.<\/p>\n

The 49ers were honored with multiple academic awards, as announced by the ITA. The ITA gives awards to both teams and individuals, and the 49ers received honors for both.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

“I am proud of our student-athletes and their commitment both on and off the court here at Long Beach State,” said head coach Jenny Hilt-Costello. “It says a lot about their character to win championships and academic awards year after year.”<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach State earned its sixth team award and fifth in a row in 2009, joining three other Big West programs in that distinction. To earn ITA Academic Team awards, a team must have a combined GPA of 3.20 over the course of the prior academic year.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The team award was a reflection of the outstanding individual effort from the 2008-09 tennis team, as six players from the team all received individual All-Academic Honors from the ITA. The award recognizes individuals who finished the year with a GPA over 3.50.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Seniors Hannah Grady and Jessica Weeks were joined by Julie Luzar, Anais Dallara and Deborah Armstrong as well as fall competitor Stephanie Jeanes. Long Beach State was responsible for nearly a third of the individuals honored by the ITA in the Big West, accounting for 6 of the 20 athletes from the conference who received the award.<\/p>\n

From LBSU reports<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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Even more academic awards for the 49ers as the ITA recognized both the team and six individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":16983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}