IRVING, Texas, JULY 20, 2023 – The University of South Florida men's tennis squad has been selected as an American Athletic Conference (AAC) Team Academic Excellence Award Team for the 2022-23 academic year, as announced by AAC Commissioner Michael Aresco on Thursday morning.
In addition to the team accolade, a grand total of 235 individual USF student-athletes have garnered AAC All-Academic team recognition.
Nominations for the All-Academic Team are submitted by each of the American Athletic Conference's member institutions. To be eligible for the honor, a nominee must have competed in an American Athletic Conference-sponsored sport, attained a minimum grade-point average of 3.00 for the preceding academic year, and completed a minimum of two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters of academic work, with a total of 18 semester or 27 quarter credits, not including remedial courses.
The nominations are reviewed and approved by the American Athletic Conference Academic Affairs Committee.
The Team Academic Excellence Award selections are made by the conference's faculty athletics representatives. The winning teams were chosen based on the 2022-23 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution's roster at the end of the academic year, weighing each student's GPA by credit-hour completed.
About USF Athletics
USF Athletics currently sponsors 19 varsity men's and women's teams that compete in 11 different sports, 18 at the NCAA Division I level in the American Athletic Conference, which will expand to 21 teams with the recently announced additions of women's lacrosse (2024-25) and women's beach volleyball (2025-26). The Bulls' athletic program began in 1965 and will be in its 58th season in 2023-24. Nearly 450 student-athletes train and compete in the athletic district located on the east end of the campus in Tampa, Fla. USF garnered two national championships in 2022-23 as Romaine Beckford for NCAA indoor and outdoor high jump titles. The Bulls have claimed 26 American Athletic Conference team titles since joining the conference in 2013 and own 140 conference titles claimed in 15 sports in department history, led by 20 each for men's tennis and men's soccer. USF has claimed 74 men's conference championships and 64 women's titles, led by 14 in women's tennis and 12 in volleyball. The Bulls have posted a combined annual grade-point average over 3.0 for more than eight straight years and are in the midst of a program record of 17 straight semesters with a combined GPA over 3.0 as of the spring of 2023. USF has had over 600 student-athletes earn their degree since 2016-17.
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