STOCKTON, Calif. – The Pacific men's and women's tennis programs each had their best academic year in at least two decades as recognized by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) when both teams had a plethora of student-athletes named scholar athletes and were subsequently named ITA All-Academic Teams by the association during their 2026 award announcements on Monday.

To qualify as an ITA scholar athlete, a student-athlete must have finished the 2025-26 academic year with at least a 3.5 GPA and competition eligibility. Meanwhile, at the team level, programs must have a minimum collective 3.2 GPA, all student-athletes listed on the eligibility form, and all letter-winners must have factored into the collective GPA to be named an ITA All-Academic Team.

The women's side of the program had four current Tigers qualify in rising seniors Indiya McLeod/Nahreen Cheam, rising junior Shukan Parikh, rising sophomore Eden Kanon and one recently graduated Tiger, Cindy Ung. The five Tigers, plus two former Pacific student-athletes, give a grand total of seven, which makes this the program's most heavily represented year since at least the 2004 season.  

In the men's half of the announcements, rising senior Christof Schaertlin Coffey, rising juniors Nico Rating/Jonty Giesen/Vraj Patel, rising sophomore Hasith Gummuluru and recently graduated Tigers Terence Das/Riley Hillenbrand comprised Pacific's representation as scholar-athletes. Like their women counterparts, the seven student-athletes, plus one former Tiger, meant Pacific had its best season academically since at least the 2004 season.

Within the WCC, Pacific's eight men's representatives topped the conference while the seven women's Tigers recipients tied Saint Mary's for second highest.     

Both squads will return to competition in the fall ahead of the 2026-27 regular season in the spring.

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